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
News editors from 18 Asian countries deliberated media’s role in fighting climate change in a two-day conference “Himalayan system in a changing climate future and media’s role” which ended yesterday in
Import of truck-mounted incinerators planned The State government proposes to import truck-mounted emergency incinerators to tackle the solid waste management problems in cities. The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal in this regard and entrusted the purchase with the State Small Industries Development Corporation.
Study To Be Commissioned Ahead Of Upcoming UNCRD Conference Ahmnedabad: After carrying out an intensive drive for efficient garbage disposal, city’s civic bosses are now working on a project for a waste-free Ahmedabad. The project for preparing a roadmap for this purpose will be commissioned by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD). This is for the first time that a UN body has been willing to encourage the emerging agenda for a garbage-free city in Gujarat.
In an exercise spread over a year, the Mumbai Customs cleared hazardous and unclaimed goods, some older than a decade, from its warehouses in the city. Separately, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPt), too, cleared
The European Union funded SWITCH-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels project, implemented by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce had been in operation since 2009 and has successfully engaged 170 hotels throughout
The Shalimar Hospital management has formed a committee of senior doctors and experts to probe the incident of selling hospital waste to some people in the Raiwind Road area. According to a press release
IMPHAL, Feb 7 – Manipur- based Centre for Research on Environmental Development (CRED), an NGO, has been awarded the Green Globe Foundation award 2012 for outstanding contribution at the grass root level
Operating agency to pull out of waste management project The city Corporation has more to worry than the people's agitation and legal tangle in the operation of the beleaguered Vilappilsala solid waste
Municipality plans to improve garbage collection Residents attribute poor garbage mechanism of the local bodies as the primary causative of increase in the stray dog menace in Namakkal. Last year 17,848 persons have been administered with anti rabies vaccine in this district due to increase in the stray dog menace.
Minister for Co-operation C. N. Balakrishnan has said that decentralisation of waste management was the only lasting solution for the garbage menace faced by the city. Addressing the annual convention of the District Residents' Apex Council, Thrissur, at the Kerala Sahitya Akademi hall here on Sunday, he said people should take responsibility for treating the waste they produced.