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 lack of apathy by the civic bodies and police has turned a road in East of Kailash area of South Delhi into a dumping ground for garbage, construction material and accidental vehicles. The road that was constructed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, almost eight years back, at Rs 6 crore to reduce the heavy traffic jams on the Moolchand - Ashram stretch.
BHUBANESWAR: Call it creating wealth out of waste or innovation in converting a mere garbage material to eco-friendly polymers, the benefit is threefold: Helping the environment in manufacturing biodegradable material for a green planet, finding out ways for multiple uses of the bio-polymers with a vast array of human and scientific applications and utilising industrial byproducts.
M K Sunil Kumar KOCHI: The city will start to stink soon if the row between the Kochi Corporation and the Andhra Pradesh Technical Development Corporation carries on. The Corporation authorities have not taken any steps to take over the Brahmapuram plant which is the only solution for the city
Syed Muthahar Saqaf and M. Balaganessin Residents of many colonies have to bear stink every day K. Kesavan: Society
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: Residents of NGEF Layout, Sanjaynagar have been fighting a battle in vain against Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP), which has reportedly turned a blind eye against an illegal garbage dumping site in the locality. No relief seems to be in sight for the residents, who have been running from pillar to post for the last several months.
LUCKNOW: A clean Gomti, one of the important poll planks of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the general elections, has once again been battered to the background as tons of municipal solid waste gets dumped on the flood plain area of the river. The dumping, officials said, was being done to level up a section of land proposed to be converted into a park near Gandhi Setu close to Ambedkar Udyan.
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to utilise tons of domestic garbage and carcass of animals in a different way. The LMC in place of dumping garbage and carcass on the outskirts of the city will now use it for production of cooking gas. The task has been assigned to a city-based NGO. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the directorate of local bodies here on Thursday.
TIRUCHI: Corporation Commissioner T. T. Balsamy has instructed officials to ensure cent per cent removal of garbage in the city, especially in Srirangam, in view of the Chithirai car festival at the Ranganathaswamy Temple scheduled for April 24.
Jammu: As the entire world celebrated the World Earth Day today to stress upon the conservation of Mother Nature, the apathetic attitude of the state government towards preserving the water bodies has converted the Tawi River into a garbage dumping ground.
Srinagar: Academicians, administrators, students and representatives of non-governmental organisations today discussed the need to root out the problem of polythene from the Kashmir valley on the occasion of World Earth Day here.