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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Plastic bags need to go for waste management scheme to succeed
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is of the firm view that the menace of non-biodegradable and non-recyclable plastic bags should be eliminated for its waste management programme to be successful.
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Drive under way against use of plastic products
TIRUCHI: A huge volume of banned plastic cups and bags, below the thickness of 20 microns, was seized during a special drive conducted by the Corporation officials over the past two days in the city. The Corporation has banned the use, sale and manufacture of plastic products below the thickness of 20 microns. The ban applies to plastic bags, cups/tumblers and plastic coated plates.
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Plastic no bane: traders to campaign against ban in Delhi
New Delhi: Alongside the Delhi government
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Stopping Shivratri pollution through SMS
IEREED (Institute for Enviornment Research Entrepreneurship Education and Development) India carried out a hi-tech campaign to remove pollution on the ocassion of Shivratri. The Non-Government Organisation sent out SMS and e-mails to people urging them to abstain from the use of polythene on the ocassion.
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Anti-environment polythene bags return with a bang
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury Thousands of banned polythene shopping bags have reappeared, again exposing the people across the country to the threat of severe environmental degradation, because the government is taking no measures against the manufacturing, marketing and use of the bags.
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Meeting BIS standards a must, pollution board tells plastic bag manufacturers
New Delhi: Setting a standard for biodegradable plastic bags for the first time, the Central Pollution Control Board has laid down specifications for such bags in the Capital. Now, these bags have to be compostable and prescribe to the Bureau of Indian Standard of IS/ISO 17088:2008 for them.
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RWAs & schools take paper recycling route
Corporates Too Join Hunt For Plastic Alternatives New Delhi: Where there
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Plastic, other waste destroyed in Colva scrap yard fire
A major fire engulfed a scrap yard located in a residential locality at Colva last night, destroying plastic and other waste
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Court notice to Delhi Govt. on petition against plastic ban
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi Government on a petition by the All-India Plastic Industries
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Plastic ban in school
Students with No Horn placards in front of the school. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya) A student