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 …
New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull
New delhi : The plastic manufacturers' association on Thursday said that they would be forced to approach the Supreme Court for relief if the Delhi government didn't take back the ban on plastic bags. According to members of the association, a delegation had met the Delhi environment secretary recently but …
COIMBATORE: Solid waste management is progressing in all the 52 town panchayats in the district, even though at least half of them are struggling to find land to create landfills for the disposal of non-biodegradable waste. But, almost all of them have managed to find ways to make manure out …
Staff Reporter TIRUNELVELI: An anti-plastic campaign was carried out at the Manimuthar dam check-post when hundreds of revellers were allowed entry to bathe at the Manimuthar waterfalls on Thursday last in view of
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow The UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) feels that a complete ban on polythene will would be the best and most effective way of putting an end to the problems caused by it. Many states in the country have already put a blanket ban on the …
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow On the pattern of Delhi, the use of polythene may be completely banned in the state capital also. The first citizen as well as environmentalists have started thinking on these lines and a proposal to this effect may be tabled in the next meeting of …
17 Jan 2009, 0737 hrs IST, Neha Lalchandani, TNN NEW DELHI: The Delhi government's ban on plastic bags couldn't have come at a more opportune time 2009 has been declared the international year of natural fibres by the UN. However, it did manage to catch Delhiites by surprise. Only when …
16 Jan 2009, 0122 hrs IST, Neha Lalchandani, TNN NEW DELHI: If you are still carrying groceries or vegetables from the market in plastic bags or using them to dispose of your garbage, you run the risk of a jail term or fine, or both. An indulgent official machinery may …
COOL, breezy evenings are a virtue of the season. It is a time when city folks hang around shops with their family. Kochi is bustling with shoppers. The shopping binge that ends after a few days of gaiety and joy would leave hundreds of kilos of plastic garbage in the …
DH News Service,Madikeri: Lack of maintenance has turned Abbey falls vicinity into a plastic zone. One can find only plastic bottles, heaps of papers everywhere near Abbey falls. Tourists who visit Kodagu, never fail to visit Abbey falls. Those who want to be away from the concrete jungles of Bangalore …
A combination of high tax structure, debatable import duty policies, age-old legislations, lack of duty protection coupled with the overall economic slow down, presents a grim outlook for the plastics industry
The initiatives taken, both by Wal-Mart and Progressive Bag Affiliates need to be replicated across the world, including India. Imposing a ban on plastic bags as being advocated by some critics is not the solution
K Raja Rajan In the fifties and sixties, milk was supplied in glass bottles (prior to that, fresh milk was supplied loose at the doorstep), we had to carry our own cloth bag to collect provision items wrapped in old newspaper cones. Buckets were in steel with tin coating. Even …
KY Vijay Kumar | ENS Chennai, PLASTIC is an environmental hazard chiefly because it is nonbiodegradable. It cannot be decomposed by micro-organisms or by any biological process. It is a synthetic polymer that can be moulded into complex shapes. Elasticity makes it extremely popular as a packaging material. In its …
T Muruganandam | ENS Chennai, THE only serious attempt to regulate the proliferation of disposable plastics in the State was made in 2002, when the then AIADMK government introduced a Bill on the subject in the Assembly. Solidly backing the Bill on the floor of the House, the then Chief …
