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
Despite a four-year ban on the practice, a report carried in Friday's edition of the Beijing Times indicated that many vendors are still giving free plastic bags to their customers. Research by a civil
This essay gives an overview of plastic waste, its sources, plastic waste management process alongwith the techniques used to manage plastic waste and initiatives taken by the government from an Indian
“Students, gather plastic waste and get rewarded,” says the Corporation. And the reward would include grace marks, notebooks and other study materials. The Corporation’s novel programme is the latest addition to the “Say No to Plastic Waste” campaign which is being carried out as part of the year-long ‘Suchitwa Varsham’ project. “The student who collects maximum quantity of plastic waste will be awarded with grace marks.
MUMBAI: Activist Medha Patkar will now take up the cudgels for railway stall operators who are upset with the Central Railway's ban on food items sold in plastic and metallic packets. The CR has already
JORHAT: The district administration imposed ban on the use of polythene carry bags, plates, water glasses made of thermocol. In this regard a meeting was held yesterday in the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner, Jorhat to discuss the cleanness of Jorhat city. In the meeting besides the Deputy Commissioner Ramesh Jain, the Chairman of Jorhat Municipal Board, representatives of the conscious citizen forum, officials of Chambers of Commerce, retailers and whole sellers, Drug Dealers’ Association, the Fish Seller Association, representatives of different NGOs took part in the meeting
Civic body remains mute spectator to wanton pollution at tollgate junction The tollgate junction near the Coleroon river, the gateway to the city from the northern side, is fast turning into an eyesore owing to indiscriminate dumping of garbage by commercial establishments on the roadsides.
KOCHI: Having identified that a ‘waste to energy’ plant will solve the garbage disposal-related issues in the city, the Kochi Corporation is mooting the idea of setting up such a facility at Brahmapuram. It will be designed to treat plastic waste to generate crude oil. A team consisting of the Mayors of Kochi, Kollam and Thrissur Corporations recently visited the solid waste treatment plant at the Pimpri-Chinchwad twin towns in Pune.
Bathing ghats remain dilapidated; mosquitoes find breeding ground Though the temple town of Kumbakonam is blessed with the Cauvery, the glory of the river seems to be slowly dwindling with it being turned into a cesspool during summer and dumping yard for plastics and other wastes. Senior citizens feel that the river could be put into good recreational use by converting it into a boating paradise when it is in full flow.
New options for processing degradable and plastic waste are being considered for Kochi. The civic administrators of Kochi, who are touring Pune and Delhi for familiarising themselves with the innovative techniques of management of municipal solid waste, have extended invitations to two groups to demonstrate their methods in the city. A company operating a plant capable of producing fuel from plastic and another one which owns the technology for converting biodegradable waste into manure in 10 days have been invited to Kochi.
The Bhojanchal Youth Association at a memorandum to Mr.Jayant Mallayya, Environment Minister of Madhya Pradesh, has urged that the guidelines given the Madhya Pradesh High Court about the prohibition on