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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Plan to exchange recyclable plastic wastes with ginger, garlic
With the support of community participation, Environ, a city-based environmental NGO, is planning to make the recycling of plastic more productive in terms of employment generation and pollution control. Plastic waste, often occupying a considerable space in any household, and also a prime cause of flash flood in the city, can now even help
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EACCI against use of plastic bags
The Eastern Assam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EACCI) has said that the ban of plastics by the district administration goes against the government policy. The body mentioned this while objecting to the prohibitory order on the manufacture, sale and use of plastic carry bags within the district. While recognizing the menace caused by the disposal of these bags, it laid the blame on the inefficiency of the municipality and lack of civic sense among the people.
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Time to go green
If Earth survives, so shall life
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Jute bags to keep plastic at bay, help Bengal poor
Jute bags to keep plastic at bay, help Bengal poor Green Shopper Movement Blow To Greedy Middlemen They call it a poor-topoor collaboration. Self Help Groups (SHGs) in West Bengal have joined hands with Chetanalaya, the social service arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi, to drive home an often-repeated point
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Enforce laws to keep Haryana clean and healthy'
Problem of recharging ground water should be taken up seriously: Governor Artificial rain water harvesting system to be adopted Plastic carry-bags be used for carpeting of the roads Haryana Governor A. R. Kidwai and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday that problems like bio-medical waste, waste water and air pollution should be properly addressed and relevant laws strictly enforced to keep Haryana environmentally clean and healthy.
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Green shopper campaign launched in the Capital
Lieutenant-Governor praises initiative of two NGOs Staff Reporter Delhi's Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna launched a green shopper campaign here on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Khanna said it was a good initiative by two non-government organisations, "Green Forum" and "Chetanalaya", which would distribute jute and cotton shopping bags in Delhi and the National Capital Regions to counter the poly and plastic bag menace.
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Pollution worries Dibrugarh denizens
The district administration has chalked out an elaborate programme in the town for the World Environment Day. However, the town suffers from the fact that there is no scientific garbage disposal system in place.
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Develop public transport: L-G
Delhi leiutenant governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday made a passionate appeal to the capital's residents to choose public transport as their mode of travel for bringing down the air pollution level in the city. Mr Khanna said that the government should develop the public transport system in the capital so that vehicle owners riders switch over to it. "This will help in bringing down the air pollution level which is creating problems for them,' he said, calling for larger public participation in protection of the environment.
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NGO develops safe technology
Waste plastic products should not be treated as threats to our environment. A proper system to recycle these products and efforts at extracting fuel from them may turn these waste products into invaluable assets, said Amarjyoti Kashyap president of the non-Government organisation (NGO) Environ. This is very significant in these days of growing threats of scarcity and rising price of fossil fuel. Besides, there is also the angle of environment pollution, which can be tackled better with the use of plastic fuel and application of a safe technology to extract fuel from plastic.
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MMC plan for plastic-free Margao only in record books!
A plastic-free Margao. That's what the Margao Civic body has set out late last year by banning sale of plastic bags in the Commercial capital. Sadly, after repeated failed deadlines, the ban has now been confined to the Civic record books, thanks to the change of guard in the Civic body and the lack of enthusiasm by the Civic babus. It was with great fanfare that then Chief Officer, N D Agrawal ably supported by the Chairperson, Johnson Fernandes announced a ban on the sale of plastic bags across the city from Goa Liberation Day on December 19.