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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Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Sparked by surging oil, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting rubbish dumps. Long a symbol of humanity's throw-away culture, existing landfill sites are now being viewed as mines of potential which as the world population grows could also help bolster the planet's dwindling natural resources.
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Plastic recycling poses risk to citizens' health
A large number of factories associated with the informal recycling industry in the city burn plastic in residential areas and release hazardous fumes into the air. While the people worst affected by the burning of tons of plastic every day are the workforce employed at such factories
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Improper dumping of clinical waste causing health hazards in Barisal
Clinical waste management in Barisal is going on without any scientific management, proper license and training and often piled on city roadsides posing risks of environmental and health hazards. More than 800 Kg. clinical wastages per day created from two public hospitals and more than 50 private hospital, clinics, laboratories, health care and diagnostic centers of Barisal city.
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Plastic surgery: HC gives power to pollution control panel
Neha Sinha New Delhi, August 13 Now, DPCC can search, confiscate material from illegal plastic manufacturing and recycling units in city Giving its ruling on arguably the city's biggest choker and polluter, plastics, the Delhi High Court has given more teeth to the normally toothless Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).
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Plastic onus shifts to users
JAYANTA BASU Airports, railway stations, malls and fast food outlets have to take an active role in plastic waste management, the state environment department has decided. The department has asked all municipalities and municipal corporations to issue directives to malls, airports, railway stations and fast food centres to make arrangements for delivery of their plastic waste to authorised recycling units within August 31.
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Civic body lays plastic-fortified road in Dadar
Mumbai, August 9 Finding an ecological solution to reuse polythene and plastic waste, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation laid a 100-metre stretch of road at Dadar using plastic and asphalt. This stretch on Prof V S Agashe Road near the Kohinoor Technical Institute in Dadarwas laid by the civic body's Road department with the help of the Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE) . The BMC will test its sustainability for a year and then decide whether to lay an entire stretch of road using waste plastic.
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Sri Lanka Central Environment Authority imposes another burden on public
Sri Lanka's Central Environment Authority (CEA) yesterday imposed another financial burden on the public by asking them to pay for the polyethylene sacks supermarkets use for bagging the groceries for free of charge normally. At a media briefing held to announce this decision, the Environment Minister and Ultra Nationalist Party, Jathika Hela Urumaya MP, Patali Champaka Ranawaka stated that the decision has been taken to prevent consumers misusing the bags. He said that all supermarket owners have agreed to this decision.
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Sri Lanka Central Environment Authority and supermarket chains to deter using plastic bags
A coalition of five leading supermarket chains announced the launching of a campaign to completely deter the use of plastic shopping bags by their customers from August 1, 2008 with the support of Central Environmental Authority (CEA). Commenting on the initiative, Udaya Gammanpila, Chairman, CEA said, "One of the objectives of the National Policy on Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka is to ensure the environmental accountability and social responsibility of all waste generators, waste managers and service providers.'
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Kulgam artisian innorates paste for polythene bag destruction
JAMMU, July 23: An awareness programme cum workshop was organized by J&K Khadi and Village Industries Board at Kanipora, Kulgam to create awareness amongst the rural entrepreneurs about different schemes being implemented by the board.
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Makeup lovers go green in style
With the growing concern for climate change and the need for conservation, the perils of wastage are like the writing on the wall. Many people in the city have started making efforts to reduce wastage, either by conserving energy or using efficient alternatives. Though frequent carpools to work, reuse of paper, saving fuel and using less of plastic definitely helps save the environment. But another arena where a substantial amount of wastage can be curbed has to be that of day-to-day cosmetics