Bhubaneswar, April 10 -- In a significant step towards sustainable urban waste management, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has formalised an agreement with Nexband Renewables to transform the capital's vegetable waste into high-grade biofuel. 

According to The New Indian Express, the partnership, solidified through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on Monday in the presence of Mayor Sulochana Das, will see the development of a 150-tonne per day (TPD) compressed biogas (CBG) plant.

Located in the Khuntabandha area of Begunia, Khurda, the facility is designed to produce approximately 6,000 kg of automobile-grade bio-CNG daily. This initiative follows a previous agreement between the BMC and Oil India Ltd for a se...