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
CUTTACK: Brace up for sparkling clean, dust-free roads along with unclogged drains and water channels from Tuesday as the millennium city switched to the state-of-the-art mechanised sweeping and sanitation processes from Monday. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management project in the State which includes the mechanised sweeping
Experts addressing a workshop on health care waste management here over the week-end called for promoting scientific methods for disposal of waste to improve the standards of health delivery system and minimise the risk of exposure to harmful objects at both public and private health care institutions. The two-day workshop for medical practitioners, para-medical staff and management personnel o
CMC has elaborate plans to utilise the waste generated in the city for generating power. Plans have been chalked out to take up innovative steps towards generating electricity from solid waste. Bestowed with Green Leaf Award for effective solid waste management measures, the CMC has already introduced systematic way of collection of wastes.
<p>Bioremediation is an invaluable tool box for wider application in the realm of environmental protection. Bioremediation approach is currently applied<br /> to contain contaminants in soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediments including air. These technologies have become attractive alternatives to
<p>The Government of India (GoI) has established the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for comprehensive management of the river. The NGRBA program will adopt a river-basin approach and has been given a multi-sectoral mandate to address both water quantity and quality aspects. The NGRBA has resolved that by year 2020 no untreated municipal sewage or industrial
<p>Whereas, the draft rules, namely the e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2010 were published by the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide number S. O.
The Sri Lankan government is to give priority to environmental protection with the implementation of two projects. The Central Environment Authority (CEA) has signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Peradeniya University and with the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) to implement the two projects. CEA Chairman Charitha Herath has told the media that under the
Thiruvananthapuram: A public comfort station invariably conjures up images of grimy walls, damaged cisterns, soiled toilet seats, and shabbily dressed cleaners spitting pan juice all over the floor. Now replace all that with swanky exteriors, gleaming metal walls, an automatic flushing and cleaning system, and a remote-controlled operating mechanism. Too good to be true?
Three days time given to traders against using them COIMBATORE: Beginning May 12, the Corporation will ban plastics in the city.
<p>Waste material accumulates on inner roads in Erode and suburbs ERODE: Heaps of uncollected trash are rotting on the sides of roads, at the entrance of residential colonies, and in front of the markets in Erode town as the local administration here has grossly failed to ensure proper garbage collection.