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
Pollution
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People vs plastic: global support for a strong plastics treaty
Eight out of 10 Indians support cutting plastic production in order to save the country’s biodiversity and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, revealed a new Greenpeace International report.
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Pollution characterization and quantification in the agriculture sectors
Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution.
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Selling out Nigeria: Shell’s irresponsible divestment
The oil firm Shell cannot be allowed to withdraw from the Niger delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure, a report
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Plastic tobacco filters. a problematic and unnecessary plastic impacting the environment and human health
In Perspectives Issue 45, titled “Plastic tobacco filters – A problematic and unnecessary plastic impacting the environment and human health”, No More Butts looks at the damage of tobacco filters – a plastic
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Addressing plastic pollution for climate benefits: opportunities in the global plastics treaty for Asia and the Pacific
Highlighting how plastic impacts climate change, this brief considers the anticipated Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) and shows how ADB can help Asia and the Pacific implement circular economy solutions to
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Report by Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee regarding the status of ETP/CETP/STP in Chandigarh, 23/10/2023
<p>Report by Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee in Original Application No 593 of 2017 (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti Vs Union of India) dated 23/10/2023.</p> <p>The report said that Chandigarh is generating
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Building a future for women in South Asia’s plastics waste management
This report focuses on the role of key stakeholders (policy makers, waste management practitioners, civil society, informal workers’ organizations, and the private sector) in contributing to pollution
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National Plastic Action Partnerships (NPAP): a multistakeholder approach to addressing plastic pollution in Developing Countries
How can Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships manage plastic pollution in developing countries? See what learnt from Indonesia, Ghana, and Vietnam about National Plastic Action Partnerships (NPAP) in this report.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding compliance of CPCB guidelines for running of gaushalas/dairy farms, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 12/09/2023
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sitaram Ahirwar Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 12/09/2023.</p> <p>The issue in the application is compliances