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
District panchayat president P.P. Shyamala Devi has underscored the need to enforce a blanket ban on sale of non-degradable plastic bags, which are generally used by people to dump garbage. Talking to The Hindu, she admitted that the use of plastic bags had assumed the proportion of a real “villain” in effectively containing the outbreak and spread of fever.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon take action against wholesalers and retailers stocking and selling plastic bags less than 40 microns thick, said Member Secretary K.Karthikeyan.
Fresh milk delivered at your doorstep, minus any polluting plastic pouches. In a nod to environment conservation, the state animal husbandry department has decided to deliver fresh milk to households
New Delhi: In 2009, Delhi government had banned the use, sale and storage of plastic bags. Two years on, the ban has failed to make any significant dent. The shoddy implementation of the ban has prompted
Industry told to make plastic products eco-friendly Union Minister of State for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs K.V. Thomas has said that directions have been issued for updating the Indian standards of plastic products to make them compliant with the norms of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) so as to ensure that these do not cause any damage to human health.
Government agencies not taking action against defaulters: study More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches for sale of tobacco products came into effect on March 1 this year, small and big manufacturers of pan masala and chewing tobacco are still violating the rule openly, a recent survey by Voluntary Health Association of India and eight other partners has found.
in conservation of environment as well as leads to sturdier roads, is catching up in the northern region after a successful initiative by the Himachal Pradesh government. Waste plastic material, including
College students, volunteers, environmental activists and Corporation sanitary workers came together to take up a cleaning drive aimed at making wards 1 to 6 in Srirangam and Thiruvanaikovil areas plastic-litter
A mobile court of Environment Directorate led by Raza Mia, Barisal Sadar upazila nirbahi officer, fined 12 business enterprizes 17 thousand taka for violating environment act by doing business without
PANJIM: In a bid to improve segregation of dry waste, Corporation of the city of Panaji has introduced further segregation of dry waste at source itself through the ‘four bin system’.