From biometric attendance and GPS-enabled garbage tracking to complaint apps and mechanised sweeping, Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation is steadily transforming its sanitation ecosystem through technology, citizen engagement and decentralised waste processing …
Solid Waste Management
This initiative is aimed at tackling the 100 to 125 tonnes of textile waste generated daily, which cannot be processed with regular solid waste management systems. Pune generates a substantial …
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India to Generate 0.7 kg Waste Per Person Per Day by 2025: Report
The rise in living standards fuelled by the industrial revolution and economic growth has dramatically reshaped consumption patterns, resulting in complex challenges for solid waste management (SWM). This shift in …
Airports, be it big or small, require the right hands to maintain, implement processes, retain quality and to ensure consistency. This responsibility largely is outsourced to service providers who not …
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Plastic Waste Taming the Untamed
While India has taken up plastic waste management aggressively by introducing policies, automation and collaboration with corporates and other professional bodies to educate and implement segregation, disposal and recycling of …
In India, at present, only 75-80% of municipal waste is collected, a marginal improvement from 72% in 2010. Out of this, only about 22%-28% is processed and treated. Poor service …
WIll recycle more than it will use. ITC, which has been solid waste recycling positive for over 13 years, is now all set to move beyond plastic waste neutrality next fiscal. The …
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike – Bengaluru’s municipal corporation – has drafted by-laws for Solid Waste Management (SWM), which mandate segregation of waste at source. It is in consonance with …
India, is the 2nd largest nation in the world with a population of 1.3 billion.The per capita waste generation rate in India increased from 0.44kgs/ day in 2001 to 0.5kgs/ …
Waste audits to quantify the various components in a waste stream are becoming increasingly important for proper solid waste management. This is due to the main shift in the overall …