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
It seems that Pune is inching towards goal of a plastic-free city. Following suit of its neighbouring Lonavla Municipal Council (LMC), the Talegaon Dabhade Municipal Council (TMC) has initiated plastic
More than a month after the oil leak from a pipeline owned by Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) polluted the Mahul creek and destroyed mangroves with a furnace oil slick, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
PANAJI: In addition to the two large waste treatment plants - one each in Calangute and Cacora -- the government has mooted a third garbage treatment plant (GTP) in Bicholim to handle the state's plastic
The indiscriminate disposal of plastic to the environment is of concern. Microscopic plastic litter (<5 mm diameter; ‘microplastic’) is increasing in abundance in the marine environment, originating from
Conservation of the lakes can significantly enhance the much wanted and rapidly declining underground water availability in and around the growing city of Coimbatore. This was one of the major ecological
Plasma pyrolysis is one of the technologies which could be opted for disposal of plastic waste. In Plasma pyrolysis, high temperature is produced using plasma torch in oxygen starved environment to destroy
<p>The Global Climate Risk Index 2014 has ranked Pakistan among the three most affected countries worldwide for three consecutive years by climate-related catastrophes. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Pakistan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.</p>
KSPCB Chairman Dr Ayi Vaman N Acharya speaks with CII Karnataka State Council Chairman Soumitra Bhattachara in Bangalore on Thursday. DH Photo Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) chairman Vaman Acharya on Thursday said the KSPCB is mulling over filing criminal cases against those municipalities that are unable to manage their waste properly.
Overseas sales of waste plastic (Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) waste bottle flakes) declined nearly 50 per cent as the European market reduced the use of such recycled product significantly in recent
A Bengali scientist has made a path-breaking discovery that has the potential to free the city from the plastic "noose". Devjani Banerjee, who was born in the city but migrated to Gujarat when she was