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
<p> That the CM chose to do an aerial survey for a civic issue — perhaps for the first time anywhere — reflects the significance she attaches to the conservation of the ecosystem, which is key to sustaining the environmental balance. On Thursday, the government said it was going all out to impose a ban on the use of plastic carrybags of less than 60 micron thickness as a critical step towards environmental protection.</p>
<p> With concern growing among the officials and green activists over the direction in which the anti-plastics campaign is heading in the Nilgiris, the district administration has decided to step up measures to make it more effective.</p>
<p> Violators may lose trade license, says Udupi CMC commissioner Udupi: The ban order on plastic below 40 microns has received positive response from the traders and the vendors. The ban order will
<p> Retailers across the city charging customers for plastic carry bags to prevent indiscriminate use of plastic have reported a minimum 30 per cent drop in usage since the first week of July.</p> <p>
<p> Shortage of Kudumbasree Clean Well workers</p> <p> Heaps of garbage seen piled up by the wayside and the growing stray dog menace in the city point to shortfalls in the implementation of Capital
<p> AHMEDABAD: A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health officials raided shops of wholesale dealers of plastic bags near Kalupur market on Thursday and seized three tonnes of plastic bags
<p> SHILLONG: “Meghalaya is one of the States in India which falls under vulnerable Zone-V of high seismicity and bamboo can play a vital role in appropriate housing and construction to its suitability and availability”, according to Kankana Narayan Dev of Bambu-N-Man, a bamboo design consultancy of Guwahati, Assam.</p>
<p> As India Cements Limited, which was helping the municipal corporation by taking a portion of the plastic garbage generated in the urban local body as a supplementary fuel in its kiln, has stopped taking the waste for the past two months, the civic body has been forced to look for a company afresh for using the non-recyclable refuse.</p>
From plastic bags to FDI to GST, there is a lot on retailers' minds. Retail bigwigs met in Mumbai on Wednesday to discuss the agenda for India Retail Forum, scheduled for September. While the Retailers
<p> AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has cracked down on polythene bag users, but it has not yet regulated it.</p> <p> The guidelines by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has