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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Plastic ban only on paper? Rampant use of polythene bags at Numaish
HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) might have announced a war against the use of plastic bags, but the rampant use of polythene bags at the ongoing 78th All India Industrial
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Plastic trash linked to disease in corals: Study
Scientists have found that plastic trash - ubiquitous throughout the world's oceans - massively increases the chance of disease in corals. "We examined more than 120,000 corals, both plastic-free and
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Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs
<p>Plastic waste can promote microbial colonization by pathogens implicated in outbreaks of disease in the ocean. We assessed the influence of plastic waste on disease risk in 124,000 reef-building corals
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Jammu & Kashmir govt launches drive for plastic ban
Waking up to the environmental degradation, Jammu and Kashmir government has launched a massive drive to implement the ban on the sale and use of polythene bags in the last ditch effort to make the valley
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Maharashtra to publicise plastic ban from March
The state environment department’s public notice asks district collectors and all the local bodies in the state to create awareness about it and to ensure wider participation of people and non-governmental
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After Ockhi, 'Friends of Marine Life' with fishers begin plastic debris clean up in sea bed and shores
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In the wake of Ockhi cyclone, plastic debris mounted in the sea bed and shores. It prompted members from the fishermen community and civil society organisation `Friends of the Marine
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Police launch drive against use of polythene
More Than 500 Kgs Seized In Anantnag, Handwara Jammu & Kashmir Police in its drive against use of polythene seized more than 500 kilograms of polythene in Anantnag and Handwara. “In Anantnag the
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Dungarpur moves against plastic, bans paper cups, gutkha pouches
UDAIPUR: In their continuous efforts to keep Dungarpur clean and green, the municipal council has banned the use of plastic and paper cups at tea stalls and selling of gutkha pouches at paan cabins and
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State’s first garbage-free locality comes up in city
A residential society in Patiala has managed to keep the surroundings clean and dispose of the household waste in an environment-friendly way. With the roll out of the Swachh Survekshan-2018, people
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What a waste, civic body style
After spending Rs 2.20 crore, MC Commissioner says buy bigger bins After spending a whopping Rs 2.20 crore on small-sized coloured bins for waste segregation, the local Municipal Corporation now says