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
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
MADURAI: Enforcement of Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 and Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage (Amendments) Rules 2003 would ensure safe disposal of waste plastic instead of a blanket ban on plastic use, said manufacturers and merchants on Sunday.
Mumbai: Though the state government appears greatly concerned about climate change and the rising noise pollution levels in the city, even going as far as to publicly criticise the proposal to build helipads atop residential buildings, the story is quite different when the politicians themselves are asked to mend their ways.
NEW DELHI: A committee set up to examine the government's draft rules on plastic carry bags and suggest financial measures to promote alternatives has not yet reached consensus on whether such bags are harmful in the first place.
With plastic ban going awry, the City Corporation has been long searching for new options to deal with plastic menace. It is all set to begin three plastic shredding units in the city to reduce its transportation to Vilappilsala. The local body is awaiting the arrival of plastic shredders for the units to be set up at Peroorkada and Manacaud (adjacent to the markets) and Medical College.
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun May 03, 2010, 0:27 IST Gangotri, Valley of Flowers and other highly eco-sensitive zones of the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand may be becoming hot sites on the tourist map.
Hyderabad, May 2: A majority of the visitors to the Necklace Road and other picnic spots in and around Hussainsagar Lake on Sunday appreciated the
The Government on Wednesday ruled out a blanket ban on plastic bags and said waste management at the local level should be improved to ensure that the waste did not become an environmental hazard. Replying to a question on plastic waste, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in the Lok Sabha that ''a blanket ban on plastic bags is not advisable.''
Hyderabad, April 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has declared the area surrounding Hussain Sagar Lake as
New Delhi: It started off with three classmates getting together to make a difference in their colony. Now, the Clean Green Vision Organization, launched about two months back, has about 20 volunteers, most of them between the age of 12 and 13 years.
EARTH DAY: Dhumal govt starts second phase of