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
The Cuncolim Municipal Council has gone a step ahead of its counterparts by finally appointing a technical consultant to set up a 10-meter ton waste treatment plant in the town.
VISITORS can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people.
IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh and poses a serious threat to public health.
More lucrative British incentives to produce energy from rotting and gasified waste are driving a push to biogas, following a wider European trend. More farmers aim to use crop waste to generate electricity from burning biogas while big business is considering the same for industrial waste, after Britain introduced more generous support in April.
MUMBAI: From the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road, the bio-medical waste treatment plant of the municipal corporation looks like an innocuous small factory with its chimney spewing gentle, white fumes.
New Delhi: Despite the ban on plastic bags, the festival season has witnessed their return to the market. Since the plastic bags come cheap, shopkeepers are blatantly flouting the rules to maximise profits.
More than 500 volunteers gathered on the Maidan on Sunday morning for what turned out to be the largest clean-up in the city. Starting 7.30am, cadets from the army and navy as well as green police and civilians, including school and slum children, uprooted bushes and overgrown grass and removed discarded plastic from six acres of the greens opposite Chatterjee International.
Tiruchi among 40 cities where the study was conducted TIRUCHI: The per capita carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission in the city has been estimated to be 0.33 tonne a year, well below the national average of 1.75 tonne, a British High Commission-sponsored study has revealed.
Chhatarpur: The ill managed drainage system causes the drains to overflow even after light rain in the district headquarter Chhatarpur.
Rs 15k Cr Planned For Clean-Up TWENTY TWO years and Rs 960 crore later, the government plans to spend another Rs 15,000 crore over the next 10 years to make the Ganga river pollution free. This decision was taken at the meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.