UDF councillors pick holes in Minister’s claims about Brahmapuram
1 month, 3 weeks ago

UDF councillors pick holes in Minister’s claims about Brahmapuram

The Hindu  

A delegation of the Opposition United Democratic Front in the Kochi Corporation Council that visited the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant on Tuesday sought to pick holes in claims by Local Self-Government Minister M.B. After a visit to Brahmapuram, the Minister had played cricket on a plot recovered after removing piled-up waste through biomining as an When 230 tonnes of waste are being brought to Brahmapuram daily, the black soldier fly plant is now able to treat only 75 tonnes. Since the massive fire outbreak at Brahmapuram in 2023, biodegradable waste is being merely dumped at the plant without any treatment. The Minister and the Mayor had sought to mislead people by creating the impression that the place had undergone a sea change, by playing cricket in the area allocated for the CBG plant, they said.

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Fire at Brahmapuram plant in Kochi serves as a grim reminder of potential for similar mishaps
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Fire at Brahmapuram plant in Kochi serves as a grim reminder of potential for similar mishaps

The Hindu  

The fire that broke out at the Kochi Corporation’s solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram on Friday, just two days before the second anniversary of the devastating fire on piled-up plastic waste that raged for almost a fortnight, leaving Kochiites breathless, has sent a warning bell about the potential for similar mishaps despite marked improvements in facilities at the plant. …

2023 Brahmapuram fire: Two years on, what has changed?
3 weeks, 4 days ago

2023 Brahmapuram fire: Two years on, what has changed?

New Indian Express  

Environmentalist C M Joy echoes similar views. However, the public is unaware of the final report and findings.” According to councillor Henry Austin, the inquiry report is yet to be tabled in the corporation council. Now the issue has gone into arbitration.” Around six months after the fire, the corporation signed an agreement with Pune-based Bhumi Green Energy to conduct …

Minor fire at Brahmapuram waste dumping yard
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Minor fire at Brahmapuram waste dumping yard

The Hindu  

A minor fire was reported late on Friday afternoon at the garbage dumping site at Brahmapuram, where biomining of legacy waste of the Kochi Corporation is under way. The fire must have taken place since drying as part of biomining is under way for the refuse-derived fuel plant, said Mayor M. Anilkumar. In the wake of the devastating fire in …

₹310-crore Brahmapuram bio-park to revolutionise Corpn.’s waste disposal and treatment capacities
1 month, 3 weeks ago

₹310-crore Brahmapuram bio-park to revolutionise Corpn.’s waste disposal and treatment capacities

The Hindu  

A comprehensive development plan for the proposed ₹310-crore bio-park at Brahmapuram complete with a slew of facilities has been drawn up jointly by the Kerala Solid Waste Management Project and Suchitwa Mission. Among the state-of-the-art new waste treatment facilities in the proposed bio-park are a windrow plant, leachate treatment plant, refuse-derived fuel plant, transportation facilities, waste-to-energy facility, construction of debris …

Waste spilling out of Brahmapuram plant to road, alleges UDF
2 months ago

Waste spilling out of Brahmapuram plant to road, alleges UDF

The Hindu  

The opposition United Democratic Front has alleged that mounds of waste have reappeared at the Kochi Corporation’s solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. Aristotle said the situation at the plant flew in the face of the civic body’s claims that crores of rupees had been spent for treating waste at the facility in compliance with the guidelines of the National …

Land approval for waste treatment plant brings relief for Thrikkakara municipality
6 months ago

Land approval for waste treatment plant brings relief for Thrikkakara municipality

The Hindu  

The in-principle approval for handing over 20 cents of revenue ‘poramboke’ land to the Thrikkakara municipality for setting up a waste treatment plant has come as a major reprieve to the civic body, which had been desperately trying to identify land for the project for nearly a year. The plot being identified is part of a vast parcel of revenue …

Mining at Brahmapuram
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Mining at Brahmapuram

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: It was on March 2, 2023, that a major fire broke out at the Brahmapuram landfill, where the daily solid waste generated by the entire city was being dumped for around 15 years. The bio and non-biodegradable wastes began to pile up and turn into heaps, covering almost the entire 110 acres at Brahmapuram allocated for waste disposal since …

Brahmapuram Fire: National Green Tribunal Directs Kerala’s Additional Chief Secretary To File Action Taken Report On Ash Removal From Dump Yard
1 year, 10 months ago

Brahmapuram Fire: National Green Tribunal Directs Kerala’s Additional Chief Secretary To File Action Taken Report On Ash Removal From Dump Yard

Live Law  

The Southern Zone of the National Green Tribunal has directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the Local Self Government Department, Kerala to file a detailed report about the actions taken in response to the orders passed by the Tribunal for the removal of burned waste from the Brahmapuram dump yard. The bench of Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana and Dr. Satyagopal Korlapati …

Local bodies can dispose waste at Brahmapuram only till April 30
1 year, 11 months ago

Local bodies can dispose waste at Brahmapuram only till April 30

The Hindu  

A Kochi Corporation-level review meeting on waste disposal has decided that local self-government bodies in the district, other than the Corporation, will be allowed to dispose of biodegradable waste at Brahmapuram only till April 30. Local bodies other than the Corporation have been asked to evolve their own method of waste disposal keeping the deadline in view, said a communication …

Scourge of public dumping waste continues unabated in Kochi
1 year, 11 months ago

Scourge of public dumping waste continues unabated in Kochi

The Hindu  

Stricter enforcement and heavier fine seem to have done little to check the menace of dumping waste wrapped in plastic covers in public places in Kochi. In the short period since the fire outbreak at the Brahmapuram plant that disrupted waste collection and disposal in the city last month, the Kochi Corporation has issued notices for fine worth ₹54 lakh …

Cases registered for dumping waste along public places sees 10-fold rise in three-month period from January
1 year, 11 months ago

Cases registered for dumping waste along public places sees 10-fold rise in three-month period from January

The Hindu  

With the Kochi City police cracking the whip on those dumping waste along public places, the number of cases registered in this connection have seen more than a ten-fold increase in the three months since January. But now, we are taking strict action against those found dumping all kinds of solid waste along public places through inquiry in the neighbourhood …

Brahmapuram fire exposes gaps in waste management
1 year, 11 months ago

Brahmapuram fire exposes gaps in waste management

The Hindu  

In a scathing order issued on January 21, 2021 warning about an impending danger at the dump site of the Kochi Corporation at Brahmapuram, the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal led by its Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel wrote: “Long stories of all round failure of the administration are poor substitute for good governance required to enforce environmental rule …

Kochi’s Brahmapuram | A dump fire that raises a stink
2 years ago

Kochi’s Brahmapuram | A dump fire that raises a stink

The Hindu  

The March 2 fire at Brahmapuram was not the first at the waste processing plant — a euphemism for a sprawling 110-acre open dumping yard with a failed windrow composting facility and a yet-to-begin waste-to-energy plant. When it followed up on a major fire incident in 2019, the National Green Tribunal had found glaring lapses in solid waste handling at …

Special Committee with Scientific Experts to Probe Brahmapuram Fire Incident, Submit Report: Kerala CM
2 years ago

Special Committee with Scientific Experts to Probe Brahmapuram Fire Incident, Submit Report: Kerala CM

News 18  

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday a special committee with scientific experts will be formed to look into the fire at the Brahmapuram waste plant, so as to figure out a way to prevent such an incident in future. Vijayan said a special investigation team will probe the crime case registered in the Brahmapuram fire incident, while a …

Kerala Opposition disrupts Assembly over Brahmapuram fire
2 years ago

Kerala Opposition disrupts Assembly over Brahmapuram fire

The Hindu  

Congress-led United Democratic Front opposition unleashed an impassioned attack against the Left Democratic Front government for “shielding politically influential contractors who heartlessly jeopardised the health of eight lakh Kochi residents by setting fire to the plastic garbage hill at Brahmapuram to cover up their abject failure to dispose of the toxic legacy waste scientifically.” Opposition motion The chaos erupted when …

Kochi Corporation under fire for shipping plastic waste to Brahmapuram flouting assurances by CM, Ministers
2 years ago

Kochi Corporation under fire for shipping plastic waste to Brahmapuram flouting assurances by CM, Ministers

The Hindu  

In a flagrant violation of assurances, initially by the Chief Minister and then by two Ministers, that plastic waste would no longer be dumped at the Brahmapuram plant, the Kochi Corporation has been doing exactly that in the cover of night at least for the past two days much to the chagrin of the local population, it has emerged. Multiple …

Warnings about shortcomings in biomining at Brahmapuram went unheeded
2 years ago

Warnings about shortcomings in biomining at Brahmapuram went unheeded

The Hindu  

Warnings by a technical committee appointed by the government and the Kerala State Pollution Control Board about the glaring lapses in the biomining work at Brahmapuram dumping yard went unheeded, according to official records. The technical committee meeting held on January 3, 2022 had made it clear that the biomining work could be approved if the company entrusted with it …

Blame game continues over award of waste management work at Brahmapuram
2 years ago

Blame game continues over award of waste management work at Brahmapuram

The Hindu  

The blame game over the awarding of contract for biomining of legacy waste and processing of biodegradable waste on the Brahmapuram campus continued with former Mayor Tony Chammani raising corruption charges against Mayor M. Anilkumar. Though the Mayor claimed that the tender for biomining was floated by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, it was the Kochi Corporation that finalised …

No respite for Kochi from decades-old garbage conundrum
2 years ago

No respite for Kochi from decades-old garbage conundrum

The Hindu  

The city’s garbage conundrum remains unresolved going by the repeated failures in waste management witnessed over the past two-and-a-half decades. Before the Kochi Corporation set up a solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram in 2008, two key attempts to manage the waste at landfill sites at Cheranalloor and Willingdon Island had failed miserably. The Kochi Corporation has been maintaining the …

Brahmapuram fire invites social, legal implications
2 years ago

Brahmapuram fire invites social, legal implications

The Hindu  

The massive fire at the solid waste treatment plant of the Kochi Corporation at Brahmapuram has set off legal and political implications besides the health hazards. Antony Dominic, chairperson of the Commission, asked the State Chief Secretary, Ernakulam District Collector, the Environmental Engineer of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board, and the secretary of the Kochi Corporation to explain within …

NGT visit to decide plant fate
6 years, 2 months ago

NGT visit to decide plant fate

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The crucial visit of the 25-member fact-finding team deputed by the National Green Tribunal to the Kochi corporation and the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant scheduled for Thursday has kept the civic body on edge, given that an adverse report could result in the permanent closure of the plant that processes waste in the corporation and 8 municipalities. "A …

Kochi: Fire again at waste plant
6 years, 2 months ago

Kochi: Fire again at waste plant

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: Even as the Kochi Corporation claims to have taken measures to improve functioning of the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant ahead of the National Green Tribunal team visit on January 23, a major fire broke out at the plant on Tuesday night. The huge heaps of plastic garbage caught fire and it took several hours for the Fire and Rescue …

Plastic waste removal in Kochi hit
8 years, 7 months ago

Plastic waste removal in Kochi hit

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: Removal of non-biodegradable waste from the city areas has been partially hit with the city corporation asking health workers not to transport plastic garbage to the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. As the Brahmapuram yard has been filled with huge piles of plastic waste, the trucks can't enter the site, said V.K Minimol, health standing committee chairperson. "We've asked …

Corporation plans 21 biogas plants in Thiruvananthapuram
12 years, 6 months ago

Corporation plans 21 biogas plants in Thiruvananthapuram

The Hindu  

Faced with the aggravating crisis on the waste management front, the city Corporation Council on Tuesday passed an emergency resolution requesting the State government to permit the civic body to set up biogas plants on the premises of 21 government establishments in the city. Hassan, brought up halfway through the course of the meeting led to heated arguments between the …

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