Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Plastics
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Plastics: facts and futures
New WWF Plastics Facts & Futures Report highlights the need for a systemic approach to tackle plastic pollution in South Africa. For too long the burden of plastic pollution has been laid at the door
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Managing Plastic Waste in India
A recent study estimates that the world has produced about 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics between 1950 and 2015 — 80 per cent of this is plastic waste. A meagre 9 per cent of this waste has been
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EU microplastics ban: How industry pressure led European Chemicals Agency to dilute its proposals
<p>Prepared by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), this report documents how corporate lobbyists have been able to influence and effectively water down the ambition of a long-expected restriction
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Reusables Are Doable
<p>The U.S. and world are at a turning point, as COVID-19 cases continue to increase and some governments have offered nonsensical and dangerous responses to the pandemic (e.g., reopening businesses too
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Perceptions on plastic waste: Insights, interventions and incentives to action from businesses and consumers in South-East Asia
<p>The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Food Industry Asia (FIA) released a regional survey of consumers and food and beverage businesses across South-East Asia that shows a significant
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MPCB report on Malegaon pollution
<p>Status report of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in compliance of National Green Tribunal order of <strong><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/466715/order-of-the-national-green-tribunal-regarding-plastic-pollution-in-malegaon-21012020/"
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding encroachment of the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, West Bengal, 05/06/2020
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dhruba Das Gupta & Others Vs Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 05/06/2020 regarding encroachment of the
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The Burning Question – Will Companies Reduce Their Plastic Use?
<p>This report focuses on the actions and responsibilities of four of the world’s biggest plastic polluters: CocaCola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever. These companies continue to sell billions
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plastic pollution in Malegaon, 21/01/2020
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mohammad Yusuf Abdullah Shaikh & Others Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 21/01/2020 regarding air pollution on account of melting
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Impact of Plastic Waste on Environment, 22/11/2019
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Impact of Plastic Waste on Environment, 22/11/2019. The Central Pollution Control Boardin its report on “Impact of Plastic Waste Disposal on Soil and Water Quality at Lucknow