Plans of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to decentralise waste processing has so far been on snooze mode, with nearly all 13 bio-methanisation plants, five organic waste converters and ...

A few years go, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), weighed down by the city’s burgeoning garbage problem, decided to set up 15 bio-methanisation plants to process green waste (wet waste).

Lignocellulosic materials including paper, textile, wood, yard trimmings and crop straws are dominant in municipal solid waste (MSW), agricultural waste and energy crops. Lignocellulose is the most ...

Coimbatore corporation ropes in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for bio-methanisation and bio-mining process that would speed up the process of waste degradation at the Vellalore dump yard.

To reduce the amount of waste reaching Mumbai’s dumping grounds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to set up a bio-methanisation plant in its F-south ward office in Parel. Initially, ...