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
Of the 800 tonnes waste the civic body manages everyday, around five per cent is plastics. With a renewed vigour the Coimbatore Corporation will soon launch a drive against the use of plastic bags less
No, it is not World No Tobacco Day, May 31, but the Hemant Soren government seems to have suddenly woken up to the perils of public smoking, if today’s advertisements of “dhumrapaan nished” for “swasthya
The problem of garbage in Goa dominated the Goa state environmental council meeting on Thursday with chief minister Manohar Parrikar promising to have many answers ready at a special meeting of the council
A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has brought to light the unhygienic conditions that prevail at major stations like Howrah and Sealdah as well as on trains. The report has also exposed
After a 6-day campaign, the team returned with 30 sacks of trash Tourism: A team of 20 tourist guides and officials of the Bhutan Tourism corporation limited (BTCL) returned to Chamgang in Thimphu with
The department of chemicals and petrochemicals is working on stringent quality norms to check dumping of basic chemicals in India. The department under the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers in collaboration
The Haryana Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Amendment Bill, 2013 was passed to provide for challaning and compounding in view of usage of plastic carry bags. The issues and challenges of maintaining
The Orissa HC has asked the state government to take appropriate steps to ban selling and distribution of the national flag made of any material other than the one prescribed in the flag code of India-2002.
While the debate on who should manage the garbage crisis is still on between the Corporation and the State government, the city residents are struggling to find alternative ways for waste disposal.
Though the use of non-standard plastic is banned, many hotels and food stalls in the city blatantly use it. Plastic bags are freely available in almost all shops, spelling trouble for environment. Prabhakar