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
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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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An eco-friendly way to bag those greens
Mumbai: Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's message of Kar ke Dekho, a group of 10 women in Nashik have started a movement to encourage the use of cloth bags and reject plastic ones.
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President calls for effective plastic waste management
NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the harmful impact of plastics on the environment, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said effective waste management of plastics was the need of the hour.
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Beat ban with jute, cloth & paper
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Plastic drive in capital
SHALINI SABOO Officials of the State Pollution Control Board, CCL and students of Birsa School clean up the Kanke dam area during an awareness campaign. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 2: The state capital would soon be free of polythene bags.
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Greens seek complete ban on non-biodegradable use of plastic
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Heavy baggage
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Traders say alternative to plastic too costly
Sapna Verma | TNN New Delhi: Worried over the ban on plastic bags in the Capital, traders are now looking for options. In an interactive session between the traders and the government on Thursday, the former raised their doubts and discussed ways to make Delhiites aware about the ban. Some RWAs also attended the session.
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2nd phase of anti-polythene drive launched
After getting positive response from the anti-polythene drive, the district administration has launched the second phase of the campaign against plastic bags. The second phase aims at countering use of plastic bags in rural areas of the district.
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Akshardham takes the lead, to go plastic-free
New Delhi: In the wake of the ban on plastic bags in major commercial areas, Akshardham Temple, though not a