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
Pollution
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Cap on mining in forest areas in Karnataka
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the State government "to put a hold on all mining activities in forest areas' as there was a need to conserve existing forest wealth.
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Wider ban on use of plastic bags in Delhi
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday tightened norms regulating use and recycling of plastic bags in the Capital to check their indiscriminate use as they pose a serious health hazard and pollute the environment. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice T. S. Thakur and Justice Siddharth Mridul also extended the scope of the ban on use of plastic bags to include the city's main markets and local shopping centres. Their use is already banned in hotels, hospitals and malls.
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Cars idling at crossings burn Rs 1,000cr a year
At a time when oil is the most precious commodity in our planet, fuel worth Rs 1,000crore is wasted every year in Delhi by vehicles idling at its 600 traffic signals. If all drivers were to switch off their engines wherever the stoppage time exceeds 14 seconds
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Efficient bus, train service only solution to transport problem'
Almost thirty percent of the vehicles that come to Colombo on week days are those used by public servants and most have drivers too, costing around 150,000 monthly for fuel and salary for each vehicle. It could be more cost effective and ease traffic congestion if public servants are paid 50,000 rupees monthly instead, Chairman, Road Development Authority, M. D. S. Fernando told The Island yesterday (13).
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Exploring our environment: a manual for green schools
The National Green Corps program has been launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to bring about a change in the attitudes in the society through children. The program focuses on educating children about their immediate environment and impart knowledge about the eco-systems, their inter-dependence and their need for survival, through visits and demonstrations as well as mobilising youngsters by instilling in them the spirit of scientific inquiry into environmental problems and involving them in the efforts of environmental preservation.
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Industrial pollution haunts Kolar
By H H Dayanand, DH News Service, Kolar: Plastic has become a necessary evil in today's world. Living in a world without plastic now seems almost impossible - but the material largely contributes to destroying the environment. Even the minutest plastic particle can be dangerous, and can lead to environmental pollution. This can be seen in Tamaka, the industrial area on the outskirts of Kolar. The area is home to at least eight plastic industries, which function from here. As a result, the place is choc-a-block with the waste materials discarded from these factories.
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Tanneries face action for not treating effluents: Environmental pollution
Orders were issued on Tuesday for the initiation of legal action against some 25 tanneries which are not treating their effluents before discharge. The director-general of the Sindh Environmental Protection Authority (Sepa), Dr Mohammed Ali Shaikh, issued these directives in accordance with the provisions of the Pakistan Environmental Act 1997, during a visit to the Combined Effluent Treatment Plant which operates in the Korangi Industrial Area under the aegis of the Pakistan Tanners' Association (PTA).
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Australia's Rudd Says Open to Negotiate Carbon Plan
The Australian government would be open to negotiations with big business over plans for carbon trading, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday, after industry complaints about government proposals. But Rudd warned business that carbon trading, needed to help Australia cut its greenhouse gas emissions, could not be done without some cost on industry. "It will never happen cost free. It is not a cost-free business," Rudd told the National Press Club on Wednesday.
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NTPC claim fuels controversy
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 5, 2008, 0:15 IST The recent claim made by state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) that it was the world
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India world's third biggest CO2 emitter
Press Trust Of India / Miami September 01, 2008, 0:13 IST India is the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, with state-owned NTPC topping the list of companies belching the deadly gas, according to the new data released by a Washington-based think-tank, which has advocated an