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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Children beware!
leading chemical companies called for European Union ( eu ) legislation to regulate the use of pvc -softening chemicals to guarantee public safety and stop a proliferation of
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Plastic, sans the peril
Indian scientists develop a process to free plastic of its notoriety
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Welcome step
THE INDIAN hotel industry churns out a composite mixture of paper, plastics, textiles, metal, glass and leftover food every day. Astonishingly, huge amounts of paper wastage is from sources such as
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Dicey waters
nine out of 10 Japanese waterways are contaminated with hormone-disrupting chemicals, according to the country's Environment Agency. A survey conducted by the agency found that 11 such chemicals
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Plastic Peril
Plastics are useful, but their use and disposal should be bound by a strong policy
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Tough webs
What do you get when you cross goat's milk and spiderproteins? Bullet proof biosteel
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Welcome move
SWEDEN became the third European Union member state to impose a ban on phthalate softeners in plastic vinyl chemical (PVC) toys. The ban will come into force early next year. The Swedish government
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The millennium hotline
The new century will explode into your home through plastic optical fibres, say US scientists, promising an amazing, "wired" future
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Eco friendly plastics?
THE Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has laid down specifications on the manufacture of polythene bags in order to make them eco-friendly, which could often be recycled. Union
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Plastic surgery
The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to the plastic bag