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
The DHAN Foundation, a leading non-government organisation in the city, in partnership with the Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, organised the ‘Madurai Walkathon 2012' here on Saturday
Town area included in the first phase of the campaign Kottayam Municipality's initiative in collecting segregated household waste from the source will begin on Wednesday. According to V.K. Anil Kumar, chairman of the Municipal Standing Committee on Health, in the first phase, the town area of the Municipality has been included in the campaign.
CHENNAI: A group from IIT-Madras is working towards developing a completely indigenous bio-degradable sanitary napkin, to curb the pollution caused by the burning of regular ‘pads’ that are used today.
Quantum of plastic bags, liquor bottles has reduced The sustained awareness campaign conducted by Agasthyamalai Community-based Conservation Centre of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment
After carrying out anti-plastic bag drive in May and June last year, the Coimbatore Corporation seems to have taken it easy. Sources in the Corporation say that the officials who are supposed to have taken forward the drive have been asked to focus on waste management in added areas. Contrast the position with May-June 2011. Corporation officials, armed with the new mandate under Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rule 2011, went after traders and retails asking them to stop use of plastic bags less than 40 microns.
KOCHI: Aiming to free the city from the dangers of plastic, the Kochi Corporation’s ban on the use and sale of plastic carry bags under 40 microns, came into effect from Monday. The Corporation has
The ban on use and sale of plastic carry bags below 40 micron will come into force in the city from Monday. The civic authorities are planning to undertake a twin approach to eradicate the menace from
AMC Gets Strict; To Impose Hefty Fines The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has launched its war on plastic by hitting where it hurts the most – the consumer’s pocket. The new Plastic Waste (Management
PUNE: The ban on the use of plastic carrybags of a certain quality by governments and civic bodies across the country is an opportunity for the development of biodegradable plastic. Such material can be
Measures will be initiated to banplastic carry bags within a year Minister for Rural Development K.C. Joseph said here on Friday that scientific waste treatment plants would be installed in corporations and major municipalities by October.