Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Nepali celebrities and renowned personalities have joined hands to ban plastic shopping bags in the country by extending their support to a youth-led campaign, ‘No Thanks! I carry My Own Bag’. The campaign aims to ban plastic shopping bags in Nepal from March, 2015. In an event organised by The …
Vaishnavi, an IT professional, visits the Mylapore temple every Thursday. It's the day she worships the Dakshinamurthy as guru. This Thursday, however, she learned a lesson regarding the use of plastics. When she and her family entered the temple, they were stopped. "We had a plastic bag containing flowers and …
MADURAI: Soon, the wastes from Madurai Corporation would be converted to power. If all goes as per the plans of the corporation, the wastes generated in the corporation limits would be a boon. The process called as pyrolysis would turn the non-biodegradable wastes segregated from the garbage using a mechanized …
India will soon be able to convert its plastic wastes into high-grade petrol and diesel, thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP). The IIP, a constituent lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has for the first time in the country …
Issuing strict instructions to maintain the dignity of the National Flag in the Punjab Government has banned the use of plastic flags. “Authorities in Punjab have been directed not to use plastic flags which are not biodegradable like the paper flags. This affects the dignity of the flag. Also plastic, …
PANAJI: Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) directed the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to stop dumping biomedical and non-biodegradable waste and carcasses of dead animals at the open site at Patto, as it is causing pollution andhealth hazards in the vicinity The pollution control board conducted an …
There's less than expected on the surface. Scientists are trying to find where in the ocean it's gone. Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans. …
Washington DC is giving foam carry-out containers the boot in an effort to make the city more sustainable. The DC Council on Monday approved the ban as part of a broader environmental package introduced by Mayor Vincent Gray. The provision bans restaurants, cafés, grocery stores and food trucks from using …
The number of single-use plastic bags handed out to shoppers by UK supermarkets has risen for the fourth year running, according to new figures for WRAP. A total of 8.3bn single-use carrier bags were issued in the UK in 2013.This represents an increase of 3.2% compared with 2012 when 8.1bn …
Hailakandi district administration has put a ban on polythene bags. Considering the harmful effects and in pursuance to the environment protection Act, the administration prohibited the use of the polythene and plastic bags in the district. The order prohibits use of most forms of plastics and trading in them. It …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand's capital will see a blanket ban on the use of polythene bags by July 17, and violators will have to cough up steep spot fine of up to Rs 5,000. An order to this effect was passed earlier this week. This was city municipal commissioner Harak Singh Rawat's …
COIMBATORE: The city municipal corporation is finally gearing up to take stern action against the manufacturers of plastic polythene bags below the permissible 40 micron size almost six months after it passed the resolution in the corporation council meeting. The civic body will now start enforcing penalty on manufacturers, suppliers …
Despite a ban on polythene shopping bags, they are being traded and used throughout the country due to lack of government initiatives to promote jute bags as an alternative. Experts alleged the government has failed to enforce the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act-2010 to boost the use of jute bags instead …
DEBATES YATRA‘A disaster needs to be prevented’ Welcome to this edition of Rising Kashmir Debates. In this edition we will be discussing Amarnath Yatra and Its Impact on Environment. This year also there are concerns about Amaranth Yatra and the environment. Newspaper articles, views expressed by different political parties and …
Karachi—Polythene bags the greatest polluters of the environment causing serious sewerage problems as well they could be replaced only when the paper bags are made affordable. Although the authorities banned the use of plastic bags many times yet its manufacturing and sale continue to hit environment because alternative paper sack …
Ban cigarette filters. Start a deposit-return scheme for used butts. Hold manufacturers responsible for clean-ups. Place warnings on packets about the impact of simply flicking one’s used cigarettes away. These are among the policy measures that Thomas Novotny of the San Diego State University in the US and Elli Slaughter …
Mounds of plastic in bags, litter lying in a corner nearby and storm water drains clogged with refuse. The popular tourist spot in the city with the right ambience for recreation had become an eye sore. But on Sunday afternoon at 1pm, regular passersby may have been shocked to see …
The City Council voted overwhelmingly in favor of a partial plastic bag ban in Chicago on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reports. The proposal was backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and passed with a vote of 36-10. The new ordinance will first go into effect in August 2015, when retailers occupying …
The Danish MEP Margrete Auken is a politician who likes her stats. In a recent four-minute speech to the European Parliament, she squeezed in three examples: 70% of marine pollution is caused by plastic; 95% of Fulmar seabirds in the North Sea have plastic in their guts; and Europeans get …
Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka (RPSL-RainforestProtectors.org) successfully completed a trash cleanup project at Yagirala Rainforest on Saturday April 26, 2014 to celebrate Earth Day which fell on April 22. Yagirala is a 2,000 hectare Rainforest situated in Kalutara district and is home to a Buddhist forest monastery perched on a …
