Archive · 3 Sep 2026
Cyberabad Municipal Corporation Plans Green Waste-To-Fuel Bio-Briquette Plant
The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation wants to find a useful way to handle plant waste.
This waste includes trimmed tree branches, garden waste and leftover leaves from roadside plants.
The corporation is studying a plant that could turn this material into bio-briquettes.
Bio-briquettes can be used as fuel in some industries.
The project could reduce the need to dump or burn green waste in the open.
The corporation may work with a private company to build and operate the plant.
The corporation could provide land and collect the waste, while the company would provide equipment and workers.
Officials say the plan is still being studied and has not been finalized.
The project could potentially earn money from selling the briquettes and carbon credits.
The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation is exploring a plant to convert green waste into bio-briquettes.
The proposed facility would process tree-pruning, horticultural, avenue-plantation and other green waste.
The Standing Committee approved pursuing the project through an expression of interest.
The corporation is considering a public-private partnership in which a private operator would run the plant.
Officials say the proposal is preliminary and remains subject to a feasibility study.
- Who
- The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation, its Standing Committee and potential private partners.
- What
- A proposed plant to convert municipal green waste into bio-briquettes for use as industrial fuel.
- When
- The proposal is at a preliminary stage; no final timeline was provided.
- Where
- Within the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation limits in Hyderabad.
- Why
- To reduce open dumping and burning of green waste, use it productively and potentially generate revenue from bio-briquettes and carbon credits.
- Project
- Green waste-to-bio-briquette processing plant
- Waste sources
- Tree-pruning waste, horticultural waste, avenue-plantation residues and other green waste
- Approval
- The Standing Committee approved taking up the project through an expression of interest
- Potential model
- Public-private partnership
- Municipal role
- Potentially providing land and facilitating the supply of municipal green waste
- Private partner role
- Setting up and operating the plant, supplying machinery and manpower, and marketing the bio-briquettes
- Project status
- Preliminary and subject to a feasibility study