Ensure ban on plastic bags, officials told
New Delhi: As part of its efforts to improve the city
New Delhi: As part of its efforts to improve the city
The tough U.S. fuel economy standards announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday represents a bonanza for companies that supply hybrid technology and other gas-conserving components needed to meet the new benchmarks.
Coca-Cola Co said on Thursday it has developed a new plastic bottle that is partly made from sugar cane and molasses, raising the bar in the battle for the most environmentally friendly packaging. Coke will test the new bottle in North America with Dasani bottled water and certain carbonated brands later this year. The test will expand to the vitaminwater brand in 2010.
The City Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a measure making Chicago the nation
Wine connoisseurs who turned their noses up at screwtop caps replacing corks now have a new innovative to sniff at -- plastic wine bottles designed to resemble glass but with a 29 percent smaller carbon footprint.
Australian winemaker Wolf Blass has claimed that selling wine in plastic bottles, instead of glass bottles, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wolf Blass on Tuesday launched its Green Label, offering a dry white and a cabernet shiraz in plastic PET bottles.
The Government will provide financial support to the smaller industries to set up Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP), said State Minister for Environment & Forest Advocate Mostafizur Rahman. He was addressing a discussion organised by Bangladesh chamber of Industries (BCI) on May 02.
Meena Gupta SAHAS, an NGO has been providing us with eco friendly cloth bags which is very appealing and also has a clear message "Refuse a plastic bag and carry your own shopping bag." Green HSR
The state minister for environment and forests has assured smaller industries of government's financial support to set up effluent treatment plants (ETP).
MUMBAI: Anita Prabhu, a 27-year-old computer professional working in Belapur, and her friends had an embarrassing moment at MTDC's Ganpatipule beach resort when they were about to leave the place last weekend. They were fined for leaving plastic bags and beverage cans around the `Konkani huts' they had hired for three days.
GUWAHATI, April 30
It is a move that may draw flak or resistance, but when you look at the bigger picture, a ban on plastic bags and levying a tax on their use will do our surroundings a world of good.
BHUBANESWAR: Call it creating wealth out of waste or innovation in converting a mere garbage material to eco-friendly polymers, the benefit is threefold: Helping the environment in manufacturing biodegradable material for a green planet, finding out ways for multiple uses of the bio-polymers with a vast array of human and scientific applications and utilising industrial byproducts.
Srinagar: Academicians, administrators, students and representatives of non-governmental organisations today discussed the need to root out the problem of polythene from the Kashmir valley on the occasion of World Earth Day here.
Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC)in association with the Trader
Ahmedabad : A Green Generation Campaign' to create awareness about the menace of plastic bags will be launched by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) starting from Earth day on Wednesday.
Mumbai As the 39th anniversary of Earth Day dawns upon us, thousands of students, and government and private company employees in Mumbai will distribute nearly a lakh paper bags to their neighbourhood grocers and shopkeepers today.
Kurukshetra: The Election Commission has banned the use of plastic and polythene for the preparation of posters and banners by parties and their nominees during the election campaign. All presidents and secretaries of recognised parties have been directed to follow the directions strictly.
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh today cleared a proposal to start a pilot project adopting at least 11 road projects in the state, where waste plastic bags will be used in the construction of roads.
Thousands of families in the Southern province depending on the coir industry have lost their livelihood due to the shortage of coconut husks. They said the fragmentation of coconut estates as housing blocks and tsunami sites has resulted in this state of affairs and that the devastation caused by the tsunami further aggravated the situation.