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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Rs one billion plan chalked out to cope with pollution
Punjab government has evolved a comprehensive programme costing more than Rs 1 billion to cope with the increasing level of pollution on account of increasing trend of population, industrial development and vehicles in the province.
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Pollution killing 55,000 people every year
We are losing 30,000 children to poor environmental conditions at our houses and 25,000 adults to overall air pollution in the country every year. This was observed by Minister for Environment Askari Taqvi while speaking at an Earth Day event held at the Wetland Centre of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) at Sandspit, Karachi.
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Environmental Public Hearings are a mockery of the law in Jharkhand: the case of public hearing at UCIL-Jaduguda
The story of UCIL-Jaduguda and the struggle of the mostly Santal Adivasi People against the company is not unknown to the general
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Alternative pollution control policies in Developing Countries
In developing countries, weak environmental regulatory institutions often undermine conventional command-and-control policies. As a result, these countries are increasingly experimenting with alternative approaches that aim to leverage nonregulatory
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Effluents killing mangroves: Study
Mangroves should not be used as sewage disposal sites. It is killing them. Mangroves grow in highly saline, coastal waters, representing a very unique ecosystem.
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French Radioactive Waste to Double by 2030
France's highly radioactive waste will more than double by 2030 mainly as spent fuel derived from nuclear reactors mounts up, the French national radioactive waste management agency (Andra) said on Tuesday. Andra draws up every three years an inventory of sites polluted with radioactivity and details quantities per waste category as well as volume forecasts.
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The little green data book 2009
The Little Green Data Book 2009 points to the world
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Thermocol waste washed away into paddy fields
Thermocol waste lay scattered all over the paddy fields behind Margao
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Guidelines for location & prevention & control of pollution in stone crusher industry
Stone crushing industry is an important industrial sector in the country engaged in producing crushed stone which acts as raw material for various construction activities such as the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, canals, etc.
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Killing them ever so softly
Widespread pollution by the Vedanta refinery in Orissa raises serious questions about environmental monitoring.