With the Okhla compost plant coming into operation, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has successfully reduced carbon emissions, which has earned the civic body carbon credits worth Rs. 5 lakh. The Okhla compost plant was developed as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project, which also happens to be the first solid waste management project in the country. MCD has thus emerged as the first civic body in the country to have earned carbon credits.

The Okhla compost plant, which has been revived through a public-private partnership between the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and IL&FS, is capable of processing 200 mega tonnes of waste. Depending on the performance of the plant, MCD can earn carbon credits in the future too.

Hotel Wild Flower, an Oberoi Group hotel at Chharabra, has been served a notice by the Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board under the provisions of the Water and Air Pollution Act. The pollution control officials of the state found the water samples of Hotel Wild Flower to have contained partially treated sewage water. The notice asked the management of the hotel why its application for getting the consent to operate be not refused and the power supply not disconnected.

Lions Clubs International District 324 A1 has installed water purification plant near the Labour statue on the Marina beach, Chennai. Installed at a cost of Rs.nine lakh, the newly inaugurated water treatment facility is capable of treating 9,000 litres of water everyday. Nearly 40,000 people, who visit the Marina beach every day, will be benefited from the water purification facility. The voluntary organisation has also installed similar plants near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the beach, and Dr. Visveswaraya Tower Park in Anna Nagar. The efforts of the Lions Clubs International District 324 A1 will also benefit 25 schools in Chennai, as it plans to make similar facilities available in these schools. During the past three years, the organisation has installed 68 water purification facilities in the city.

A power generation plant is all set to come up in Delhi within a period of two years, which will generate electricity from the garbage collected in the city. Besides producing electricity for the capital, the plant, which will be built by Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management Company Private Limited, in association with Jindal Urban Infrastructure, is also expected to solve the problem of garbage disposal in Delhi to a great extent. To be set up at a cost of Rs. 200 crore at Okhla, the power generation plant will have the capacity to produce 16 MW electricity from around 1800 metric tonnes of solid wastes.
Apart from the Okhla plant, a similar power generation plant is also being built in Ghazipur by Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL). The two power plants are expected to solve the problem of disposing garbage in the capital to a great extent as they together can absorb half the garbage produced in the city.