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
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power.
MUMBAI: Senior Congress leader Baba Siddique on Tuesday urged chief minister Prithviraj Chavan to set up a high-level special investigation team to probe into a Rs 10,000 crore municipal solid waste scam involving politicians and civic officials. "It's a fraud on the public exchequer.
<p>Since SACOSAN-III, held in New Delhi in November 2008, India has continued to accord priority to sanitation at the national, state and local government levels. This has resulted in continued improvements in access to sanitation, increased attention to usage of toilets and
<p>This document presents the results of the study entitled “Economic Aspects of the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management”.
The paper is an excerpt from a more comprehensive study by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection comparing the technical elements of offset projects in forestry, agriculture, and waste management,
Cities are blamed for the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. So too are more affluent, highly urbanized countries. If all production- and consumption-based emissions that result from lifestyle
A city lad from Columbia University has come up with a waste management plan for Hyderabad. Mr Ranjit Annepu, 22, was in the city on Monday as part of his three-month MS research at the Earth Engineering Centre, Columbia University, New York. He pointed out,
The Mysore City Corporation has taken up setting up of zero waste management units in another four wards after its success in Kumbarkoppal.
ERODE: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is planning to amend the rules to further tighten the norms on bio-medical waste management, said Dr R Sridhar, deputy director, hazardous system management division of the ministry. Addressing at the workshop on bio medical waste management, jointly organised by TNPCB, Erode IMA, CPR Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) and the Ministry a
Students and teachers of Doon University participated in a day-long training workshop on Solid Waste Management as a part of the capacity building and strengthening of Vermi Composting Units in universities and colleges, an initiative of the State Government. The programme was held at the Senate Hall of the university and was attended by senior members of the staff and students from various col