Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Devavrat Kumar Sahani Vs State of Bihar dated 07/04/2025. The application was being registered on the basis of a letter petition dated December 27, 2024 sent to the NGT by the applicant, Devavrat Kumar Sahani, Muzaffarpur, …
Mumbai The Vile Parle (E) vegetable market has become cleaner and greener in the three months since it imposed a plastic ban on itself. Since May, when the public-private trial initiative began, the BMC has noted a significant reduction in plastic wastes in the area since May. This has prevented …
Plastics not bio-degradable and hit groundwater table Eco-Friendly: Mayor M.Subramanian distributes paper bags made of recycled paper to shopkeepers on the Marina beach in Chennai on Wednesday. CHENNAI: Close to 1,500 paper bags made from recycled paper were distributed by Mayor M. Subramanian at the Marina beach to spread awareness …
New Delhi: Despite a January 2009 order against use of plastic bags in main markets, local shops and showrooms, Delhiites cannot seem to give up on this one particular habit. Many of those using these bags claim they are 40 microns or above and are either compostable or bio-degradable. Up …
S. Annamalai Ministry for using plastic waste for rural roads MADURAI: The road has been cleared for productive use of waste plastic. The National Rural Roads Development Agency of the Ministry of Rural Development has come out with guidelines for laying rural roads using waste plastic. They are based on …
About 70 percent of polythene bags are till out of recycling process, which creates drainage congestion and waterlogging in urban life, especially in Dhaka City. Department of Environment (DoE) sources said poor solid waste management in city life, bad habit of the citizens of throwing poly bags anywhere they like …
Washington: Environmentalists have long denounced plastic as a pollutant that does not break down. A new study indicates that in the oceans, plastic does decompose with surprising speed, but says that is not a good thing either. Thousands of tons of plastic debris wind up in the oceans every year, …
Who is responsible for the filth in the Yamuna? Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit says no work is getting done because too many government agencies are meddling with the river; not to mention the Centre-sponsored delays. Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh says sewage treatment plants are not functioning to …
This review aims to summarize the existing knowledge on the environmental and occupational health risks of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling and other end-of-life options. Hazardous substances present in WEEE, including heavy metals (e.g., mercury, cadmium, lead, etc.), flame retardants (e.g., pentabromophenol, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA), …
A ship loaded with 1,600 tonnes of rubbish set sail on Wednesday to return the rotting cargo to Britain from Brazil, where it had been shipped falsely declared as plastic for recycling. Eighty-nine containers packed with trash that includes dirty diapers, used syringes, food waste and computer parts were hoisted …
S. Aishwarya CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) is planning to conduct a study about the impact of hazardous materials in plastics on cow milk. According to S. Prathaban, professor and head of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Clinical Medicine Ethics and Jurisprudence, Madras Veterinary …
Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today said that Jammu and Kashmir will soon be country's first state to have a fully dedicated bio-plastic product manufacturing facility. During his recent visit to Delhi along with the managing director, J&K; Agro Industries limited, Dr. G.N. Qasba, the minister had pressed for …
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." A research vessel carrying a team of about 30 researchers, technicians and crew members …
Shimla: The government is likely to go slow on the proposed ban on plastics in view of the issues raised by various sections of the people who will be affected by the decision. An indication to this effect came here today from Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal who told mediapersons …
K.T. Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for its failure to strictly implement the Central rules with regard to the sale and use of plastic materials.
Power and Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira told the House that there is already a ban on the sale of plastic flags. He was replying to the issue of plastic flags used on national days, raised during Zero Hour by Fatorda MLA Damu Naik (BJP). Naik during Zero Hour said plastic …
The best option is, of course, recycling in an environmentally sound manner. But it is also a fact that most civic bodies fail to collect and dispose waste. Instead of implementing techno logical innovations States such as Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal other than Delhi have banned the …
Considering the steps taken by other States, the Tamil Nadu government should seriously consider banning the use of plastic bags and other plastic material up to 60 microns as an immediate step, the Madras High Court said on Monday. It requested the government to bestow its serious attention to the …
