The largest waste-to-power plant in China, the Hangu waste-to-power plant, located in the country's northern coastal city of Tianjin, will begin operations before June, according to a spokesman for the Tianjin Electric Power Corporation.

Located in the Binhai new district of Tianjin, the plant, spread over an area of 13.2 hectares, is expected to consume 2,000 tonnes of trash and waste daily.

New Delhi: The Sheila Dikshit government will have none of the protests and Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's green concerns and stands firm on commissioning the waste-to-energy projects in Timarpur-Okhla and Ghazipur.

The residents and ragpickers were up in arms against the projects, while the Union minister had requested the Delhi government to reconsider the location of these pl

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power.

Though residents of Okhla have been protesting the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in their locality for months, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit confirmed on Wednesday that the project will be completed soon.

Dikshit gave her assurance that the plant was being built after procuring all the required environmental clearances, and no health hazards would be caused due to it.

Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city?

New Delhi:A day after he inspected the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit alleging he had found serious anomalies in the project.

Referring to the anomalies, Ramesh has said,

Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has instructed senior environment officials to meet the residents protesting against the upcoming Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant and look into their reservations about the plant.

Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh met a group of protesters living in colonies located around the controversial Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy project, owned by Jindal Ecopolis, at Paryavaran Bhawan on Friday.

They demanded that the minister take immediate steps to stop these waste to energy projects coming up in Okhla, Timarpur, Ghazipur and Narela-Bawana.

Waste pickers along with environmentalists and civil society groups staged a march from Kudeshiya Park to the Lieutenant-Governor's office here protesting against the setting up of three waste-to-energy plants in the city.

The protesters said the three incinerator plants at Okhla, Timarpur and Gazipur were being built with complete disregard to the public health concerns of the area residents.