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
Samithi says Suchitwa Mission is trying to set up plant The Lalur Malineekarana Viruddha Samara Samithi has protested against the alleged move to install a centralised waste management plant at Lalur. In a memorandum to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday, the Samara Samithi alleged that the Suchitwa Mission had called applications for setting up a centralised plant at Lalur with 250-tonne capacity a day.
Reclamation of paddy fields and wetland and razing of hills are rampant in the State, chairman of Assembly committee on environment C.P. Mohammed has said. After tabling a report of the committee in the Assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Mohammed told reporters that the officers of the Revenue Department were shirking their responsibility of enforcing the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act.
Amendment in the existing Guidelines for Classification / Reclassification of Hotels 2012.
Solid waste management (SWM) strategies offer huge potentials to contribute to climate change mitigation. To assess the potentials of SWM to contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and resource recovery,
Authorisation for 10 local bodies had expired nearly a year ago The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) is about to take legal action against the 10 local bodies in the district, including Kochi Corporation, for their failure to renew their authorisation under the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, for collection, segregation, transportation and suitable disposal of municipal waste.
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in order to accelerate the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the Centre had gone in for a total revamp of the programme. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country would take at least 10 years to achieve the Nirmal Bharath status, when all the 2.4 lakh grama panchayats in the nation could be declared free of open defecation under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA).
Kerala will be the first major state to be declared open defecation-free, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said here. This will be effective from November 1, the State Formation
The Suchitwa Mission, which is coordinating the activities of solid waste management in the State, is planning to launch a programme for compressing waste material into bales and packing it so as to process it later. The initiative is being undertaken in the wake of the delay in executing its earlier plan to set up waste management units in major cities. The work on preparing bales and packing the solid waste will be done by competent agencies, to be selected through an official selection process. The project is to be launched at Thiruvanathapuram before being extended to other cities.
Durgapur, June 24: Farmers in a Durgapur village who had not accepted compensation for land acquired in 1964 and had apparently been promised by Trinamul before the Assembly elections last year that their
Merely calling nuclear energy safe and essential will not suffice at a time when even urban pockets do not have access to healthcare made possible through nuclear technology, said Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Sekhar Basu. Speaking to The Indian Express hours after taking charge on Tuesday, Basu said that there is a need to show people the social face of nuclear energy. He took over from outgoing director R K Sinha, who was recently appointed as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.