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
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
A Dutch foundation has developed floating barriers to try to collect trash from the world's oceans, and will launch a 100 meter-long prototype in the North Sea this week to see how it fares during storms.
The district administration will launch a drive to check the use of polythene bags and plastic around Har-ki-Pauri and Ganga ghats in Haridwar as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is getting stern over
Kochi: Thrikkakara municipality has shut down its sole plastic shredding unit after residents raised concerns of air pollution in the locality. According to residents, toxic smoke spreads over the area
An overwhelming majority of Indians surveyed feel that civic bodies across the country have been ineffective in reducing the use of polythene bags in the first two years of the Swachh Bharat initiative
The first time professor Sherri Mason cut open a Great Lakes fish, she was alarmed at what she found. Synthetic fibers were everywhere. Under a microscope, they seemed to be “weaving themselves into the
Scientists have come up with a new way to turn plastic waste into liquid fuel. It uses less energy than previous methods, and produces a higher quality end product. The technique breaks down polyethylene
<p>Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by lowenergy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis
Mumbai: The state government will collect waste plastic from school children, besides NGOs and housing societies, to mix with bitumen for road construction, public works department (PWD) officials said
The UK government now fully backs a legal ban on polluting plastic microbeads in cosmetics and toiletries, environment minister George Eustice said on Tuesday. A ban across the EU could be passed as
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: THE Corporation faces a daunting challenge at managing plastic waste after a recent High Court directive banned burning of solid waste and plastic in public places. While it is a welcome