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
AGRA: The lighting of bonfire as a replay of burning of Holika symbolizing the victory of good over evil, now seems to have a not-so-holy side. Huge heaps of garbage — plastic bags, sacks, old tyres, rubber
Following the July 2005 deluge, all plastic bags below 50 micron and smaller than 8x12 inches were banned across the city. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claims to have started its preparations
KR Market, Bengaluru’s largest marketplace and the biggest user of plastic, is set to ban all kinds of plastic from April 2 onwards. The traders have joined hands with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Microbeads used as “scrubbers” in cosmetic products are being released into the natural environment Our desire for a squeaky clean skin could be polluting the environment and even hampering our health
The Government has notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, in suppression of the earlier Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. The Minister of State for Environment, Forest
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s. Adsum Solutions (Pvt.) Limited Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 18/03/2016 regarding manufacture and use of oxo bio-degradable plastic.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is slated to pronounce on Monday on whether plastic packaging of products including polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers is safe or not. Uttarakhand-based NGO,
Bengaluru: Leaning over makeshift shops on the pavements of Commercial Street, under the blazing sun, two shopkeepers were casually discussing the plastic ban that kicked into effect on Monday. They came
The National Green Tribunal has sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking ban on use of micro-plastics in cosmetic and bodycare products in India alleging their use is extremely dangerous for aquatic
The discovery by scientists of a new bacteria that can eat plastic is timely because studies indicate that by 2025, there would be one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of finfish caught in the oceans.