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
HARIDWAR: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned the use of plastic bottles around the banks of Uttarakhand here to check the menace of pollution in and around the river Ganges, an official said
If Sanjaynagar and Dollars Colony in north Bengaluru are free of plastic today, the credit goes to Vignan Gowda, a Bengalurean by birth, a techie by profession and a changemaker at heart. The muck piles
LUCKNOW: Lack of waste management system and rampant open defecation are blots on the city's sanitation. Lucknow not qualifying in the top 100 Cleanest Cities of India in the recent survey released by
Nine town panchayats in the district are set to be turned into plastic-free zones from the morning of Independence Day, as part of a project that the district administration has been working on since August
Move, a prelude to ban plastics in 16 town panchayats from August 15 Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal has asked the government departments to avoid use of plastics for supply of food items in their
A SWISS trimaran on a round-the-world voyage aimed at raising awareness about plastic pollution in the oceans has docked at Shanghai, its only stop in China. Trimaran “Race for Water Odyssey” with her
A gust of wind and plastic bags sweep into the air, in the distance the smell of rotten fish. I walk past people covering their nose, marching as if in a hurry. Guedwaye is an overpopulated suburb of
The Mauritanian parliament late on Tuesday approved a new draft bill penalizing the manufacture, importation, distribution, marketing and use of flexible plastic bags, reliable sources in Nouakchott disclosed
Vice Chairman of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Investment and Trade, Senator Mohsin Aziz hailed the provincial government decision regarding imposition of ban on manufacturing and use of polythene shopping
Nearly two-thirds of shoppers believe biodegradable and recyclable bags should be exempt from the levy being introduced this autumn. Ministers are bringing in a 5p charge for plastic bags from October