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, …
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 …
HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JAN 20 With just six days to go before the ban on plastic bags comes into effect in the Commercial Capital from January 26, the Margao Civic body appears a confused lot whether to impose a blanket ban on plastic bags or reign in only on carry …
Yogita Sabberwal | New Delhi The latest directive by the Delhi Government on non-usage of plastic bags has come with loose strings. While the notification has clearly come under the pressure from the Delhi High Court order, the mechanism to implement it remains vague. According to sources, the mechanism to …
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 …
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 …
TACKLING TRASH Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat: After joining hands for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), Japan will partner Surat-based Gujarat Enviro Protection and Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL) to make Gujarat a
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 …
After a miserable failure last year, the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) is bracing up to implement the ban on plastic carry bags to make the Commercial Capital plastic free from Republic Day. Days after issuing a notice asking business establishments to exhaust the stock of plastic bags, the Civic body …
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 …
Haryana Minister of State for Environment and Forests Kiran Choudhry on Wednesday directed the officers of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) to prepare a list of all plastic bag manufacturers and take steps to completely ban the use of plastic bags in the State. Spreading awareness Presiding over …
The BMC is pulling out all the stops to ensure that beaches in the city are clean. The civic body will spend a little more than Rs 7 crore over the next five years to spruce up three major beaches
KOCHI: To save the city from the menace of plastic waste, the district administration and the Kochi Corporation in association with the Kudumbasree units are planning to launch a new plastic waste management project. As per the project, the Kudumbasree members will collect the plastic waste from houses and shops. …
