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
Ecologist says sustained campaign to create awareness essential The proposed ban and boycott on plastic carry bags in the city can be a good idea, but requires proper groundwork and a sustained campaign to ensure its success, feels ecologist S. Faizi. Reacting to the concept mooted by political parties, proposing to implement the ban and boycott with government support, Mr. Faizi said the plastic ban issue was a complex one and to have it enforced overnight, though not impossible, would require preparations, including creation of awareness among the public and more importantly, ensuring availability of alternatives.
Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar K. said on Thursday that the officials lacked the morale to implement the ban on plastic that was imposed with much fanfare on November 15. When it was pointed out during a “meet-the-press” programme here that the ban was not even being implemented in malls, Mr. Kumar attributed it to the squads being diverted to Kukke Subramanya but later said that a complaint lodged against officials that stated plastics had been “robbed” by them after a raid had affected the morale of the officials. A case was pending in the Karnataka High Court regarding the ban, he said.
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Mallige Hospital on Crescent Road for dumping bio-medical waste in an open area near Hebbal Lake. It has issued a showcause notice to the hospital, asking it why its trade licence should not be cancelled. The civic agency has given three days’ time to the hospital to reply, failing which the licence will be cancelled.
Team of unknown persons is conducting unauthorised raids A group of persons, which claims to be working under the direction of a Standing Committee of Chennai Corporation Council, has emerged as an obstacle to the campaign against the trade of illegal plastic bags. These persons, claiming to represent the Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare of the council, have been allegedly visiting business units involved in the trade to ‘seize illegal plastic bags.’ However, they have been permitting the trade of below-40-micron plastic bags with ‘the permission of the Committee,’ allegedly after collecting money for the same.
The Kerala Assembly has adopted a substantive motion voicing concern over several recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil panel on Western Ghats conservation and wants the Centre to hold wider consultations
Refuse piles up by roadsides as government and Corporation slug it out On December 20, 2011, when the last truckloads of garbage from the capital city rolled into the solid waste treatment plant at Vilappilsala, not many in the city thought that the next day would be any different. Harsh reality dawned the next morning. The city could not longer ‘export’ its garbage. A year later, most of the high-rises in the city have their own solid-waste treatment systems, thousands of houses have a pipe-compost facility, five schools in the city have a biogas plant each, and even the headquarters of the city Corporation will have a biogas plant up and running in less than two weeks. That is the sunny side of the story.
MARGAO: After its previous attempt coming a cropper for want of awareness and logistical support, the Margao Municipal Council has decided to give yet another try to make the commercial capital plastic free. Margao Municipal Council Chairperson Arthur D’Silva said the civic body would give around a month’s time to the city’s shopkeepers and business establishments to dispose off their plastic bags stocks by January 26 next year. “One month’s time will be sufficient for the traders and shopkeepers to use the plastic bags and stop the sale of plastic bags thereafter”, Arthur said.
Tourists Found Littering Will Be Fined 500 Rajkot: The Diu administration has decided to ban the of plastics on the island spread over an area of 38.8 square km from this New Year onwards. Those found dumping plastic waste will be fined Rs 500 under various sections of Environment Protection Act, 1971. So tourists planning a New Year bash at Diu and in the habit of dumping plastic bags, water bottles and pouches on the beaches and roads, beware!
PONDA: Environment Minister Alina Saldanha has urged people to act responsibly to solve the growing garbage problem in the State. She was addressing a function at the Goa Vidhyaprasarak Mandal’s (GVM) plastic-free campaign at Ponda on Thursday. As part of the drive, students from the GVM’s schools were asked to collect plastic waste generated at their homes. The idea behind such a drive was to prevent plastic waste being thrown in the open. Mass plastic waste collected over three months was taken to A J de Almeida School, Ponda, on Thursday.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the state government to comply with the ban as ordered by the court earlier in relation to a PIL pertaining to Ganga pollution in which the court