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Waste to Energy
A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed
About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India. The committee headed by K. Kasturirangan, r...
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December 14, 2022
India’s waste-to-energy paradigm
A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India have been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and disposal of more manufactured materials by industrialised societies than their predecess...
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