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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Monitoring plastics in rivers and lakes: guidelines for the harmonization of methodologies
More than 8,000 million metric tons of plastic have been made since the beginning of large-scale plastic production in the 1950s. As a consequence, plastic debris is present in all ecosystems, including
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Gender technical assessment of opportunities to improve implementation of plastics and waste management in a Ugandan municipality
The gender gap in Kampala in the Waste Management and Plastics Recycling sectors represents a major issue to be resolved if the country is to achieve and improve the efficiency of the Strategic Program
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Report by CPCB on steps taken to minimise microplastic pollution in the environment, 27/05/2021
<p>Status report filed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in Original Application No 99 of 2021 (SZ) in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the News item published in
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Plastic waste discharges from rivers and coastlines in Indonesia
In 2015, a global study estimating inputs of plastic waste into the oceans ranked Indonesia as the second largest contributor to plastic marine pollution. In 2017, another study ranked four Indonesian
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The Plastic Waste Makers index
Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals.
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Neglected: environmental justice impacts of marine litter and plastic pollution
Public understanding of plastic pollution has risen considÂerably in the last couple of years. Far less understood is the broader context in which this pollution exists, and of the full extent of its impacts.
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Report on waste management in Thirukazhukundrdam town panchayat, Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, 05/04/2021
<p>Report of Joint Committee in the matter of Original Application No. 70 of 2021 (SZ) as per the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order February 17, 2021.</p> <p>The matter related to waste management in
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Tackling plastic pollution: legislative guide for the regulation of single-use plastic products
Concerns about the environmental and social harm caused by plastic waste and pollution have led to a surge in laws and policies designed to control the production and use of single-use plastic products.
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Plastic atlas 2021: facts and figures about the world of synthetic polymers
How have plastics and a convenience lifestyle become so widespread in a part of the world that traditionally adhered to a refill, reuse, and recycle mindset and where natural materials for packaging and
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Draft Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2021
The environment ministry unveiled a set of draft rules that propose to ban several categories of single-use plastic items. The proposed prohibition on their manufacture, use, sale, import and handling