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
In order to make Delhi free of plastic bags, the Delhi government has set a new deadline of December 22 for stopping the manufacture, sale and storage of plastic bags in the national Capital and its three
Officials in the coastal city of Ningbo, China, promised on Sunday night to halt the expansion of a petrochemical plant after thousands of demonstrators clashed with the police during three days of protests
A blanket ban on manufacture, sale, storage and use of plastic bags in the Capital will come into effect from November 22. Top Delhi Government officials said traders involved in the production of plastic
Despite the heavy pressure from the “plastic lobby”, the Delhi government has notified the blanket ban on plastic bags. A senior Delhi government official on Thursday confirmed that the notification regarding blanket ban had been issued on October 23. “The ban had been notified on October 23 and the process of implementation of the decision is on. Very soon Delhi will become the first plastic bags free state,” the official said.
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)’s garbage woes are now brimming with festival waste, virtually negating the three-month reprieve it got from the Mandur landfill. Stuck with 15,000 tonnes of uncleared garbage, the Palike is finding it tough to meet the mounting waste generated by the ongoing festival season. Despite working overtime to clear the filth piled up across the City, the Palike’s workers could remove only 3,500 tonnes on Wednesday. Mountains of filth left unpicked were seen all over the City.
The Kochi Corporation is planning to permit the municipalities in the district to process waste at the solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The municipal authorities will have to pay Rs 1000 for a tonne to the Kochi Corporation as processing charges. At present, the Aluva Municipality transports waste materials to Brahmapuram where it is recycled to produce manure.
Collector Rajendra Ratnoo has redoubled the efforts to transform Cuddalore into a “zero-waste” district before January 2013. He has started propagating the message in all the panchayats, town panchayats and municipalities. Addressing the meeting of the panchayat presidents and representatives of the Self-Help Groups at Panruti near here on Tuesday, the Collector noted that all good things should begin in right earnest. He said that in his camp office only recyclable things were being used and one-time use plastic articles were totally dispensed with. He pointed out that the plastic articles were hazardous to health, both on earth and in the sea. As the plastic articles would remain in sub-soil for hundreds of years without any degradation, it would prevent rain water to percolate into the soil.
The Veli Tourist Village, arguably the most favoured weekend holiday spot in the city, will soon be a no-plastic zone. Tourism Village Deputy Director Vijaya Kumaran said here recently that the 13-acre verdant piece of land that abutted the estuary of the Veli lagoon could also be counted as one of the most frequented domestic tourism destinations in the State. More than 5,000 persons visit the tourist village each day to take speed boat rides, spot water birds, amble along the long manmade walkway adjoining the lagoon, savour the sea breeze and catch a few hours of blissful quiet away from the tumult of the city. Parents favour the village for its children’s park and swimming pool.
New Delhi: The Delhi government is yet to notify the ban on plastic bags due to “technical difficulties”, an official said, even as the cabinet approved it a month ago. The Delhi cabinet on September 11
‘Marine litter affecting the livelihood of fishermen’ Plastic pollution in marine ecosystems is causing health hazards and economic loss, according to marine scientists. The presence of plastic pollutants in seas and backwaters is upsetting the ecosystem and breeding grounds of a large number of economically important fish varieties, said V. Kripa, head of the Fishery Environment and Management Division of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.