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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Telangana government tells urban local bodies to execute plastic ban
In a letter to all municipal commissioners, Principal Secretary (Municipal Administration) Arvind Kumar directed them to strictly implement the directives on plastic usage. HYDERABAD: The Telangana
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Grand-Bassam, UNESCO World Heritage Site, cleared of almost half a ton of plastic waste
African Development Bank has completed its program of activities marking the World Environment Day, this Saturday, June 9, 2018, by mobilizing its employees for a vast operation to clean the beach of Grand-Bassam,
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EU Parliament to phase out plastic water bottles
The European Parliament has told its lawmakers and staff to set an example for EU citizens by no longer drinking water from plastic bottles by next year. The European Parliament bureau headed by Antonio
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Maharashtra Pollution Control Board closure notice to 19 plastic units
Of these, 19 units have been issued closure notices, after four trucks, smuggling 16.7 tonnes of banned plastic bags from Daman to retailers across Maharashtra were confiscated by a MPCB flying squad.
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Target August in plastic campaign
Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), which has seized 18 tonnes of banned plastic carry bags from shopkeepers in the last seven months, plans to make the city 'polythene free' by August
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Out of the plastic trap: saving the Mediterranean from plastic pollution
A new report from the WWF finds record levels of pollution from microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea are now higher than those in the oceanic ‘garbage patches’ and are threatening marine species, fisheries
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Plastic-free Hyderabad has to be citizens' movement
HYDERABAD: Reverberating the United Nation's awakening call to ditch plastic, Telangana, along with rest of India, on Tuesday marked World Environment Day with 'beat the plastic pollution' as its theme.
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Mulling ban on chemical fertilisers, says Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam
So, after the plastic ban, the State Environment Department is considering a ban on chemical fertilizers,” said Kadam at an event organized by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). CLOSE on the
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Uganda: Museveni Bans Polythene Bags
Kampala/Mbale — President Museveni yesterday ordered 45 plastic manufacturers in the country to stop making polythene bags or kaveera, reviving a shelved government ban on the environmentally hazardous
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Nigeria Mulls Strategy to Phase Out Non-Bio Degradable Plastics
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed a plan to commence the recycling of waste polymer notes. The announcement came as the bank marked World Environment Day 2018, yesterday. The United