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
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Salem gears up for pollution-free Bhogi
Salem: As the city gears up to celebrate Pongal, the Salem Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday unveiled the plans to set up as many as 25 collection points in each of its four zones where residents
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Phase-wise plastic ban from Jan 26, says CM
Panaji: The days of the ubiquitous plastic milk bags and plastic bags for fish are numbered with chief minister Manohar Parrikar announcing that all polyvinyl chloride-based (PVC) plastic bags will be
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Colleges set model for plastic free city
Trichy: After failing in their efforts to curtail use of banned plastics in the city, authorities in Trichy have decided to try violators with iron fist by imposing penalty. But some of the educational
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This Bengaluru craftsman turns trash into treasure
CHENNAI: Earrings made of peepal leaves, a terrarium that nestles in a light bulb, a table fashioned from a tyre - visitors are bound to stop by Jagadish C's stall at Craft Bazaar 2018. The Bengaluru-based
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A suburb steps forward: This year, Pimple Saudagar set to go plastic-free
As many as 600 shops in Pimple Saudagar area in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will shun the use of plastic bags and switch to bags made of cloth. At the turn of calendar year to 2018, Pimple
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JK imposes blanket ban on polythene, to take effect January 15
In wake of damage to the state’s fragile environs, government has imposed a ban on use of polythene bags in Jammu and Kashmir. The step has been taken after High Court directives, while experts are emphasising
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Ban on plastic bags: Court criticises Kerala government
KOCHI: State government is not serious about the Kerala high court's order asking it to consider banning plastic carry bags in the state, a division bench of the court said. A division bench of the
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Plastic recycling aims to cure turtle tummy-ache on Kenya's coast
Kai, a three-year-old green sea turtle, was released back into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean off Kenya's coast this month. She had been hospitalised after her guts were blocked with white
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Nema to start night raid on plastic bag factories
KENYA: Plastic bag manufacturers are now secretly working at night to produce the banned carriers in a bid to outsmart authorities, the environment authority has said. ALSO READ: Man United's Matic, Ibrahimovic
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Kenyans launching new campaign to clean up plastic bottles
Kenya on Friday launched a campaign towards eradicating plastic wrapping materials from the environment. Judi Wakhungu, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, said that the clean-up exercise against