Officials said the building was located around 30 metres from the landfill and that the garbage mound gave way within seconds, leaving occupants with little time to react Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)’s environment department on Saturday attributed the July 8 Moshi landfill disaster to incessant rainfall and the build-up of methane gas pressure…
Pune: Civic officials on Saturday revealed that an occupancy certificate had been issued only for the ground floor of the three-storey administrative building that collapsed at the PCMC waste-to-energy plant in Moshi on Wednesday, raising questions about possible building-rule violations as rescue operations entered their fourth day.Officials of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation building permission…
Rescuers at the crash site on Friday Pune: At the Moshi waster-to-energy plant, time stands still and yet rushes by. More than 56 hours after its administrative building caved in when tons of garbage slammed into it, rescue teams continued battling unstable debris, heaps of waste and toxic gases on Friday in an effort to…
Moshi rescue operations Pune: For the seven people still trapped inside the collapsed building amid tons of waste in Moshi and the scores of rescue workers trying to bring them to safety, the challenge is to keep breathing.The threat of toxic gases from the massive waste heap and the risk of the structure that has…
After decades of taking in garbage from all south Chennai neighbourhoods, the 225-acre Perungudi dumpyard is likely to call it quits by 2026-end. Commuters and residents along the foul-smelling 200-Feet Radial Road can finally heave a sigh of relief.To facilitate this, the city corporation proposed a 2,500tonnes-per-day waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Keerapakkam, near Vengadamangalam, in…
MUMBAI: Hidden behind mountains of legacy garbage at the Deonar dumping ground, MMR’s first waste-to-energy (WTE) plant is inching towards completion, with civic officials eyeing Dec for stabilised operations. Spread across 12 hectares, the ambitious project aims to process 600 tons of municipal waste daily and generate almost eight megawatts of electricity — likely to…
