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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Car risk
Plastics are a health hazard
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Just dump it
Acids of arsenic. Organo mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of incineration of municipal and other waste. Even more harmful: waste oil, black oil. Clinical waste. Plastic wast
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Plastic avenue
Technologies can help manage waste as well as make hardy roads
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With a bucket and a plastic bag
An easy and public way to monitor air pollution that s also cheap in India
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Master of all
Leonardo da Vinci was the creator of natural plastic
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Bytes
profiling the menace: Researchers have taken snapshots of the ever-changing protein profile of Plasmodium falciparum
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HP mulls blanket ban
Himachal Pradesh, the first state in the country to regulate the manufacture and use of plastics, is now contemplating a complete clampdown on polythene bags. The state's Council of Science,
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Increased migration levels of bisphenol A from polycarbonate baby bottles after dishwashing, boiling and brushing
Baby bottles are often made of polycarbonate plastic. Impurities remaining in the bottle from the monomer bisphenol A can migrate from the plastic bottles into baby food, thereby causing a health concern.
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Honey, who shrunk the plastic
Scientists make plastic that can biodegrade within a month
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Cups of joy
Painter M F Husain's writ runs large in Uttar Pradesh too. Recently, he influenced state chief minister (cm) Mayawati to issue an ecofriendly directive. When the renowned painter met the cm at her
