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 “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” lies off the coast of California. But it is not the only place where a system of rotating ocean currents, known as gyres, concentrate floating material, particularly plastic
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on damage to environment by plastic waste, 11/12/2014.
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on action taken for disposal of plastic waste, 04/12/2014.
Chemicals that have estrogenic activity (EA) can potentially cause adverse health effects in mammals including humans, sometimes at low doses in fetal through juvenile stages with effects detected in adults.
New Delhi: In a bid to integrate and offer better working conditions to kabadiwalas and ragpickers in the national capital, civic body officials are working on a scheme to bring them under a formal organised
PILIBHIT: Taking note of the report published in TOI on the hazard to residents due to open dumps of garbage in Pilibhit city, MP Maneka Gandhi said she would take steps to ensure all-round sanitation
Water bottles, cups and polythene bags dumped everywhere Dumping of plastic materials at many places along the 27-kilometre-long ghat road from Karavalli to Kolli Hills is a cause for concern as it
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 28/11/2014 regarding growing air pollution in Delhi. The Tribunal noted that despite orders of the
The Government will set up surveillance squads with the power to levy spot fines on manufacturers of plastic bags below 40 microns, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
As lawmakers reached agreement this week to limit the use of plastic bags across Europe, industry voices warned that such rules will have a negative impact on trade in Europe's internal market. The