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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Brickfield fined in Satkhira
A mobile court here fined a brickfield Tk 30,000 on charge of polluting environment by using firewood at Bardal in Assassuni upazila yesterday. Locals said, acting on a tip-off, the mobile court led by executive magistrate Md Sadequr Rahman and aided by a Rab-6 team raided Messrs UMB bricks owned by Bardal Union Parishad (UP) chairman Yunus Ali Sana at Bardal.
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POPs talk
A meeting to eliminate persistent organic pollutants throws up more questions than answers
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Neocar syndrome
The interiors of new cars are full of toxic emissions
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SNIPPETS
• China refuted a recent US National Academy of Sciences report, which notes that a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has emerged in southern China. • Argentine President Nestor
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Parking poison
Coal based plants spew mercury
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Spicy solution
Cloves can stop hazardous asbestos fibres from escaping into the air
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Peck and die
Bacteria kill Africa s flamingos
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Raipur: the most polluted city
Unplanned industrialisation is its major undoing
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Landfill emissions poison breastmilk
After finding high levels of dioxin related compounds in breast milk of women living near landfills, a Vadodara based non governmental organisation intends to file a public interest litigation PIL against the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the Vado
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The barometer of change
VITAL Signs responds to the need for information on the trends that are reshaping our world. It surveys 42 global indicators, such as the decline in per capita availability of food and water,