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 sanitation week concluded here on Tuesday with a special drive for cleaning all wards of the panchayat. Members of the Mahila Mandal of Anoh Gram Panchayat in this subdivision along with panchayat representatives participated in the drive.
Dalhousie: Notwithstanding the fact that the Municipal Council of Dalhousie is yet to collect more than Rs 50 lakh as taxes, including water and sanitation tax, from local residents, a
Mumbai: The Cuffe Parade police on Sunday registered an FIR against a private contractor for dumping truckloads of debris on a government land at Navy Nagar. The complaint was lodged by officials of the Greater Mumbai Collectorate, who had surveyed the area following frequent complaints from residents.
New Delhi: With a ban on plastic bags enforced in the Capital, the largest ever project to utilise plastic is underway.
Pit to recycle the wet garbage yet to be constructed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises Manisha Jha
Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper mills in India, waste paper is a key raw material.
The garbage problem that affected the Colombo city for the past few days has now been addressed by the Colombo Municipal Council as a new dumping site at Peliyagoda was found, Municipal Commissioner, Colombo, Bhadrani Jayawardena told the Daily News yesterday.
Calcutta
A polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river.