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
Shredding machines installed in each of the four zones The Erode City Corporation has scaled-up usage of waste plastic materials for relaying of roads, as a way of addressing the challenge of solid waste management.
Civic Body Contacts Authorities In Indonesia, Thailand, Japan The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued an expression of interest on Wednesday to rope in international players for a solution to the city’s garbage problem.
Despite court, state govt directions, no action on the ground Five years since the state government announced the imposition of ban on polythene usage in Kashmir, there is little action on ground by the authorities concerned for implementing the ban.
City residents need not bother to segregate waste generated at their homes when the new waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram becomes operational. Going by the project report of the plant prepared by Kerala Industrial and Technology Consultancy Organisation (KITCO), all sorts of municipal waste, including plastic refuse and wood, would go into the plant to generate power. The local body can also end the practice of engaging its workers to segregate the waste into bio-degradable and non-degradable ones before packing them off to the plant.
The Mysore City Corporation is aiming big. It wants to segregate waste at source for effective solid waste management. The idea is to achieve hundred percent of segregation of waste at the source so
A £3.8 million fund for waste sorting, repair and recycling projects launched by the Scottish Government has been unveiled. Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead launched the Scottish Recycling Fund
In an innovative way to save environment, Rajasthan Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Yunus Khan has approved a project to build roads by using plastic waste and fly ash in Jaipur and Dausa districts.
A prime factor for the pollution of Cauvery river during its course in Trichy has been identified as plastic refuse. Though dumping of plastic wastes goes unabated in the city, no stringent action has
The High Court has issued a rule seeking explanation as to why authorities should be directed to stop manufacture, use and re-use of plastic bottles. Bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Khurshid
The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities to explain in four weeks why marketing and distribution of drinking water, soft drinks, beverages, medicines and other food products in plastic bottles