New Delhi: Ficci has called on the private sector for an enhanced role to convert waste into wealth.

New Delhi: Delhi is the highest municipal solid waste producer in the country followed by Mumbai, says a survey by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Delhi is the largest municipal solid waste producer in the country, followed by Mumbai, says a survey by a business house.

Ashutosh Kumar

Ahmedabad : Your drive down Pirana, on city's outskirts, makes you feel dizzy because of noxious industrial gases and stench from garbage dumps and sewage treatment plants.

But now, you may say goodbye to your ordeal, thanks to a solid waste processing plant which is transforming municipal trash into pellets and fluffs to be used as fuel in industrial units.

Going green starts from the top, and in the Capital the President

kolkata: West Bengal may lose another project, this one worth Rs 600 crore, due to procedural problems and delays in clearing a project.

Syed Ali Ahmed
The Delhi government has decided to review an old project of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) relating to generation of power from garbage. The project was finalised when the Congress was in power in the MCD.

Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta said the department concerned would review the project and push the MCD to start generating electricity from garbage.

Tops and tails are becoming much more than garbage at Gills Onions, an onion processor in Oxnard, Calif. Today marks the unveiling of the company's onion-powered electrical system, a first-of-its-kind initiative to turn onion waste into energy.

Sonali Chowdhury

: Waste, if efficiently treated, can be instrumental in helping the country meet its energy requirements and reducing greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions.