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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Now, plastic turned into power conductor
Plastics used in insulating power cables can be made to conduct electricity with the help of a thin metal film, opening the way to plastic electronics. Applying this technique, University of New South Wales researchers can now make cheap, strong, flexible and conductive plastic films. Ion beam techniques are widely used in the microelectronics industry to tailor the conductivity of semicondu
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Living in Hell
Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame
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Plastic Unlimited
New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry
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Plastic conundrum
More than a 100 million tonnes of plastic is produced world-wide each year. Though plastics have opened the way for a plethora of new inventions and devices it has also ended up clogging the drains
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A fair hearing
On World Environment Day, the Gas Authority of India Limited GAIL put out an advertisement propagating plastic as the alternative to the felling of trees. Is this a genuine concern or a red herring to confuse public opinion? Is there any truth in allega
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Beyond the odds
Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their environmental awareness campaign
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BURNT DOWN
Yet another fire guts Asia s largest plastics scrap market
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Plasticky!
Europe is debating a ban on PVC due to environmental and health concerns. Industry is fighting back with a high profile campaign
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Covering up with a plastic smile
The plastics industry in USA maintains its green image by deviously exporting used containers to developing countries for disposal, finds Greenpeace, an international environment group.
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Junking plastic
Proposal to clamp down on plastic carrybags and wrappers in Tamil Nadu