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, …
The district administration has warned eateries, tea shops and shops selling food items not to pack food items or snacks in printed materials including newspapers and plastic covers. Collector M. Asia Marian in a press release said that the Commissioner of Food Safety has issued an order prohibiting storage, distribution …
AGRA: In an innovative and artistic way to motivate people on keeping Yamuna clean, a group of foreigners from different South American countries have collectively built a 2.5-metre-tall statue of ‘Yamuna Maiya (mother)’ from the plastic waste taken out of the river. The group intends to install the statue on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Tripura) dated 07/05/2019 regarding status of compliance of orders of this Tribunal on the subject of solid waste management and allied issues. A status report has been filed on behalf …
Ludhiana: Taking serious note of the impact of usage of PVC flexboards and other harmful material being used by the candidates during the elections, the Punjab and Haryana high court has issued notice of motion to the Union environment ministry, Election Commission of India, chief election officer (Punjab), Central Pollution …
Porous borders: Four months after the ban kicked in, plastics are omnipresent. This is partly due to their import by wholesalers from States such as Maharashtra. Four months after the ban took effect in the State, single-use plastics have staged a comeback. Sourcing products from neighbouring States where manufacture of …
Use of newspapers, recycled papers, and plastic sheets to wrap food directly has been banned by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). According to an administration release, use of newspapers, recycled paper and plastic sheets by eateries, tea stalls to wrap hot food can result in food …
The Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) is collaborating with the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to achieve the government's determined plan of transforming Accra from its present state to the cleanest city in Africa. The association has accordingly pledged to support the government's fight against poor sanitation, in the same …
Supermarkets at Walvis Bay and Henties Bay will as from tomorrow start charging a voluntary fee for plastic bags as a means of deterring their use. All proceeds from the sales will go to local charities such as old-age homes, orphanages and farmers' drought relief programmes. The Otto Herrigel Environment …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Compliance of Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (State of Manipur) dated 03/05/2019 regarding solid waste management and allied issues in Manipur. The compliance report submitted by Manipur indicates some of the steps taken for solid waste management, which banning …
GENEVA: Over 180 countries have opened a UN-backed conference on waste and hazardous chemicals amid hopes it could produce a sweeping agreement toward minimizing generation of plastic waste, which has formed a gigantic mass of litter floating in the ocean. Rolph Payet of the United Nations Environment Program says he …
Biodegradable and compostable plastic bags are capable of carrying full loads of shopping even after being exposed to the natural environment for three years, a new study shows. The research published in Environmental Science & Technology examined the degradation of five plastic bag materials widely available from high street retailers …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Amit Jain Vs Union of India dated 30/04/2019 regarding import of cheap waste paper and road sweep waste for firing of brick kilns. The applicant states that 900,000 tons of waste is imported which is hazardous. The report submitted by …
Indian Oceans missing plastic waste found out by the scientists. Indian Ocean is the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic waste, but where the trash ultimately ends up has remained a mystery, scientists say.According to researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA), little research had been done to measure …
Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to …
Govt. mandates all plastic carry bags must have labelling The Kerala High Court has declined to interfere with a government order mandating that all plastic carry bags must have labelling with details such as name and registration of the manufacturer and thickness of the material, and that no plastic carry …
RAJKOT: Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) officials and snacks makers’ meeting over disposal of multilayer plastic that the manufacturers use as wrappers for their snack item concluded inconclusively on Monday. The civic body had suggested making Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) from the waste generated from these packets to the manufacturers. But, …
It's a race against time. The more than eight million tonnes of plastic that end up in the sea every year become more and more dangerous for marine fauna as they break up and are mistaken for food. Almost all Pacific albatrosses now have plastic fragments in their stomachs, which …
Disneyland Paris on Monday announced a series of measures to make Europe's biggest private tourist attraction more environmentally friendly, including banning plastic straws. The theme park east of the French capital, which draws 15 million visitors a year, is like a small town in its own right, producing 19 tonnes …
RAJKOT: Crushing all the high expectations, the Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) failed to reverse Rajkot’s fight with plastic garbage. Though Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) was the first to implement the much-hyped concept of installing the plastic bottle crushing machine, lack of awareness and poor publicity killed the initiative in the …
The government has announced that it would be moving to enforce a total ban on the manufacture, use or trading in plastic bags in mainland Tanzania. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told Parliament on Tuesday that the ban will come into force in June. Manufacturers and general traders dealing in the …
