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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Bioinspectors
Biomonitoring of contaminants comes of age
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Blacklisted
US tops pollution charts
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Strange but true
Existing clean up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine based units
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Sitting Ducks
As polluting asbestos units and illegal mining thrive amid lax laws, lakhs of workers become easy prey for dreaded diseases
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Fresh evidence
US biosolids regulations outdated
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The price of water
Low water prices have been pinpointed as being responsible for wasteful consumption by both domestic and industrial consumers, but what does the government propose to do about it?
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Indifferent strokes
Government agencies had sponsored the study but were not interested in the results
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NON INDUSTRIAL TOWNS
ALIGARH Aligarh was among the six districts chosen for the Green Revolution along with Ludhiana in the 1980s. The Green Revolution happened and Aligarh, like many other towns, went on to bigger
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A system in shambles
Weak, corrupt and ineffective implementing institutions make compliance and enforcement of environmental laws abysmally poor in India. Can economic instruments turn the polluting industry green?
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Scraping the barrel
No stock, nuclear energy programme in crisis