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
Plastics
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Ensure ban on plastic bags, officials told
New Delhi: As part of its efforts to improve the city
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Green "Gold Rush" Seen In New U.S. Auto Standards
The tough U.S. fuel economy standards announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday represents a bonanza for companies that supply hybrid technology and other gas-conserving components needed to meet the new benchmarks.
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Coke To Launch Bottle Partly Derived From Plants
Coca-Cola Co said on Thursday it has developed a new plastic bottle that is partly made from sugar cane and molasses, raising the bar in the battle for the most environmentally friendly packaging. Coke will test the new bottle in North America with Dasani bottled water and certain carbonated brands later this year. The test will expand to the vitaminwater brand in 2010.
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Chicago Bans Bottles With BPA Plastic
The City Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a measure making Chicago the nation
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Pinot Plastic? Aussie Winemaker Tries Plastic Bottles
Wine connoisseurs who turned their noses up at screwtop caps replacing corks now have a new innovative to sniff at -- plastic wine bottles designed to resemble glass but with a 29 percent smaller carbon footprint.
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Wine bottles go eco-friendly
Australian winemaker Wolf Blass has claimed that selling wine in plastic bottles, instead of glass bottles, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wolf Blass on Tuesday launched its Green Label, offering a dry white and a cabernet shiraz in plastic PET bottles.
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Govt to help smaller industries to set up ETP: Env Minister
The Government will provide financial support to the smaller industries to set up Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP), said State Minister for Environment & Forest Advocate Mostafizur Rahman. He was addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh chamber of Industries (BCI) on May 02.
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Green initiatives
Meena Gupta SAHAS, an NGO has been providing us with eco friendly cloth bags which is very appealing and also has a clear message "Refuse a plastic bag and carry your own shopping bag." Green HSR
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Small industries assured of govt help to set up ETPs
The state minister for environment and forests has assured smaller industries of government's financial support to set up effluent treatment plants (ETP).
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MTDC fines tourists for plastic litter
MUMBAI: Anita Prabhu, a 27-year-old computer professional working in Belapur, and her friends had an embarrassing moment at MTDC's Ganpatipule beach resort when they were about to leave the place last weekend. They were fined for leaving plastic bags and beverage cans around the `Konkani huts' they had hired for three days.