Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
JYOTI VERMA THE ASIAN AGE Composting gets a new life with carbon credits, more eyeballs, smarter ways of decomposing waste and an eco-friendlier attitude
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Business of illegal disposal of bio-medical waste has started again. Over 150 kg bio-medical waste containing needles, syringes, blood bags, vials and other material was seized from a godown in Ghatlodia on Tuesday. The material was neatly packed in plastic bags. This proves that a large amount of medical waste is still not being incinerated in the city.
LUCKNOW: The UP Jal Nigam (UPJN) is doing all it can to make the proposed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) plant at Kakori a reality. After the State Advisory Council met the senior members of UPJN on June 14, the implementing authority for the plant is busy preparing a fresh blueprint for the site.
Garbage disposal dominated the gram sabha meeting of the Benaulim Village Panchayat on Sunday, with villagers questioning the Sarpanch over steps taken to identify garbage disposal sites.
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The common biomedical waste facility functioning at Thenmelpakkam in Kancheepuram district is all set for an upgrade, with the Global Environment Fund, an international funding body under the United Nations Development Programme, agreeing to provide $2,58,000 for the project.
<p>Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Partymen gag residents opposing the Kondungaiyur dumpyard project Of the 400 people who live around the Kondungaiyur dumpyard and were present at the public hearing, only four were allowed to speak</p>
A section of public hearing participants wants the Corporation to shift the yard from Kodungaiyur Making a point: A participant expressing his view at the public hearing on the integrated solid waste management project at Kodungaiyur, in Chennai on Friday.
Complaining about the health hazard that the unauthorised dumping ground has turned into, residents of Sector 23 demanded on Friday that the site be shifted to some other area. Submitting a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, they also asked the Administration to stop dumping garbage in the area till then.
The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance. Known for the oldest mango tree of the variety