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
Based on the success of roads laid with plastic waste, the Tamil Nadu government has planned to relay 1,100 km roads in rural and urban areas by mixing plastic waste with bitumen, chief minister J Jayalalithaa
With an attempt to bring more people who use polythene bags under the ambit of challan, the state government has brought in an amendment to the garbage control Act. According to the finance commissioner
Vellore Collector P. Sankar commissioned a plastic crushing centre established at a cost of Rs. 8 lakh under the Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy Development Fund Scheme for 2011-12 as part
Acting on directions from the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), officials from the Tiswadi mamlatdar's office and Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) accompanied by police personnel began
In an environment-friendly move, volunteers of Satpuda Foundation, an NGO working for tiger conservation in Central India, removed three tonnes plastic from Gullarghat, a relocated village from Melghat
PANJIM: Around 2,000 cases have been booked for using or selling plastic bags below 40 microns thickness, since April 8, 2013. Also fines of Rs 2.48 lakh have been imposed on the violators, Environment Minister Alina Saldanha said in a written reply to Goa Assembly Wednesday. She said that government vide an April 8 order has implemented and enforced ‘The Goa Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act 1996’ in the State, to ban sale and use of plastic bags which are below 40 microns thickness.
At This Enclave Near Yelahanka, 950 Kg Of Garbage Generated Every Month Is Composted And Recycled Bangalore: The BBMP’s waste segregation initiatives may have floundered but one group of citizens is actively ploughing away at the effort and showing the way out for the city’s perennial landfill woes. Residents of a housing enclave near Yelahanka have displayed how sheer will and concerted efforts can make a difference to the problem of waste pile-up.
Three days after the high-court appointed pollution control board (PCB) team filed a report citing serious omissions on the part of city corporation in terms of waste management at Vilappilsala factory,
Plastic waste generation is no longer a problem confined to metro cities. Even tier two cities like Indore and Bhopal are generating mounds of plastic in industrial, residential and even slum areas. This
800 Tonnes Created Daily, It Comprises 80% Of Trash Reaching Landfills New Delhi: Delhi is among the largest producers of plastic waste in the country generating over 800 metric tonnes per day. Around 750 metric tonnes reach landfill sites daily of which roughly 80% are plastic bags and packaging materials. In fact, the capital is among nine cities across India where plastic forms more than 10% of the total waste generated. What makes it more embarrassing for the local government is that plastic bags have been banned in the city since 2009, and not just once but twice.