APL Infra P Ltd (AAPL) – Madurai headquartered Municipal solid waste management company- announced the formation of a Joint Venture with Minnesota, USA based Penobscot Energy Recovery Company (PERC LLC), to promote profiling of municipal solid waste management in India and related expertise on the International market. Under the Joint Venture, AAPL will be investing [...]
Sector: Watse Management
SGRRL’s unique power plant in Karnataka
Srinivasa Gayathri Resource Recovery Limited (SGRRL) is commissioning an 8 MW power plant in Karnataka which will use municipal solid waste as fuel. It is to be noted that, at present, there are virtually no functioning power plants in the country using municipal solid waste. For such a project, which is a first-of-its-kind, the Karnataka [...]
Kochi Corpn allots Rs 5 cr waste treatment plant
The Corporation of Kochi has alloted Rs five crore for establishing a modern solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram in public private partnership mode. The civic authority’s budget for 2012-13 said that the State government will support the project aimed at finding a permanent solution to the issue of solid waste management. The funds are [...]
MMC invites EoI for solid waste management projects
Margao Municipal Council (MMC) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for solid waste management (SWM) projects of the civic body. The civic body has invited EoIs from professionals from across the country for empanelment of consultants. In addition to providing expert guidance to the MMC in the task of capping the existing garbage dump at [...]
Cost revision hits Hyderabad project
At a time when Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is struggling to mobilise funds for the Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) Project for scientific disposal of garbage, project developer Hyderabad Integrated MSW Ltd has reportedly increased the project cost by Rs 74 crore. While the approved project cost of ISWM is Rs 434 crore, the [...]
Solid waste treatment plant: Suvery starts
A survey was initiated in Berhampur to assess the nature of solid waste generated in the area. International Financial Corporation (IFC), which is providing technological support for the project, conducted the survey. It is expected that the survey would help in the designing of the proposed solid waste management plant to be established by the [...]
Chennai Corpn invites tenders for waste plan
The Chennai Corporation, one of the largest civic bodies in the country, has called for tenders to install an integrated waste management system in the city and find a viable solution to get rid of the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dumping yards. commissioner PWC Davidar said, “People involved in waste management have been called to set [...]