Beat plastic pollution: good news from India
This book covers a holistic overview of the Indian plastic industry, existing challenges, the role of citizen groups and, most importantly, the role of the informal sector. The Indian lifestyle is based
Pollution
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Agra: Insect attack on Taj brings back green and black patch on marble
AGRA: With green and black patches again emerging on the iconic Taj due to insect attack, the ASI is once again set to start mud pack treatment on the monument. Incidentally, this would be the fourth
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BMC set to upgrade cemeteries, 15 to be made pollution-free
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to upgrade cemeteries across the city. Not only will electric furnace be set up at traditional cemeteries, efforts to make the process pollution-free
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Leather unit in which three died of asphyxiation sealed
Vellore: Officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) have sealed Maruthi Leathers, the leather unit where three workers were asphyxiated to death on Tuesday, at Periyavarikam village near
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Pollution board submits report on Bandhwari plant
GURUGRAM: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) finalised and submitted the much-awaited report on the Bandhwari waste-to-energy plant to the office of the additional deputy commissioner on
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UK plans plastic bottle charge to tackle pollution
The British government will introduce a charge on plastic, glass and metal single use drinks containers sold in England, the environment ministry said Britain on Wednesday announced plans for consumers
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Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime
Indonesia’s anti-graft agency has vowed to include environmental damages in its calculations of state losses incurred through corruption, in a move that could translate to heavier sentences and fines for
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Turf war: House committee to grill owners of firm in pollution row
National Environment Management Authority A parliamentary committee has summoned the managers of an alcoholic drinks firm accused of pollution by a neighbouring housing estate in Athi River. The officials
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Gambians protest alleged pollution from Chinese plant
Hundreds of people in a Gambian fishing town on Thursday demonstrated against a Chinese company they say is polluting their environment and the sea. Golden Lead, a Chinese fish meal processing plant,
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Pollution, lack of nutrition ailing Gurugram’s women cops
GURUGRAM: The women in uniform appear invincible to us but when it comes to their overall health, they are no different from any other working woman. A health check-up campaign by Fortis hospital for female
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La residents to sue EPA, EDISAW over ‘toxic’ rubber factory
Residents of East La in the La Dadekotopon Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, have resolved to take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the La Dadekotopon Municipal