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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Quantifying environmentally relevant and circular plastic innovation: historical trends, current landscape and the role of policy
Innovation is key to reducing the environmental impacts of plastics. However, literature is generally lacking in the field of environmentally relevant plastics innovation. This paper develops an innovative
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Order of the Madras High Court regarding use of plastics by food manufacturers to pack their products in packages, 12/08/2022
<p>Order of the Madras High Court (Review Application No. 89 of 2019) regarding use of plastics by food manufacturers to pack their products in packages.</p> <p>The court placed a query to the counsel
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Plastics in agriculture: an environmental challenge
The 29th edition of UNEP’s Foresight Brief explores the use of plastic in agriculture and the significant waste problem this entails which impacts on soil health, biodiversity, productivity and food security.
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Report on plastic waste management, Kerala, 14/07/2022
<p>Additional action taken report submitted by the Additional Chief Secretary, Local Self Government Department regarding plastic waste management, Kerala.</p> <p>Sanction has been accorded for setting
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Economic case for a circular plastics economy in Africa
An economic modelling study of three African countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and South Africa – shows that a shift towards a circular plastics economy will generate more economic activity and create more
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Plastic Waste Management (Second Amendment) Rules, 2022
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 6th July 2022 has published the Plastic Waste Management (Second Amendment) Rules, 2022 to further amend the Plastic Waste Management (Second Amendment)
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Manipur Plastic Policy, 2022
Consequent to the state cabinet's decision taken on May 18 this year to ban single use plastic in the state, the department of forest, environment & climate change has framed 'Manipur Plastic Policy 2022'
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A solution package for plastic pollution: from measurement to action
Knowledge gathered over the past four years in the IUCN Close the Plastic Tap programme is the basis of this publication. It presents a summary of methodologies, results, and key lessons learned from the
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Report filed by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board regarding implementation of the notification banning single use plastics, 10/06/2022
<p>Report filed by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board regarding implementation of the notification issued by the state of Tamil Nadu banning single use plastics within the state.</p> <p>The units
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Plastic waste: a journey down the Indus river basin in Pakistan
The perennial presence of plastic waste in the Indus River and its tributaries is a recent addition to the already extensive list of threats to water quality, ecological health, and environmental sustainability