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
Bulk users now required to file annual returns by June-end Bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipment will now have to ensure that e-waste is deposited with the distributors or authorised collection centres, given to the registered dismantlers or recyclers, or sent back to the producers through pick-up or take-back services, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red. The party’s latest posters asking for power to be generated from waste has drawn the ire of NGO Chintan, which
Texas moved closer Friday to allowing low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states to be trucked in and disposed at a site in West Texas, which would become one of only four in the nation that could
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) in Sri Lanka and the Science and Environment Centre (SEC) in New Delhi, India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on environmental training programmes last
A meeting convened by the District Collector on Monday to discuss ways to clear the accumulated garbage in the city could not find any effective solution. The meeting was called to reach a consensus with the agitating Lalur Malineekarana Viruddha Samara Samithi. The effort was to clear the rotten garbage before the Thrisur Pooram, which will be celebrated on May 1.
SHILLONG: Open dumping and throwing of garbage is a common sight in Shillong city and there are fears garbage has become so overwhelming that there might even be an outbreak of serious diseases. Environmental concerns has brought at least 19 NGOs on a common platform to begin with cleaning up the Umkhrah and Umshyrpi rivers before launching on an all out cleaning drives of the city.
Union Minister for Urban Development, Kamal Nath, on Tuesday said there is an urgent need for mainstreaming public private partnership (PPP) in the water and solid waste management sectors, not just because
Following strong protests by the Maharashtra government, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed that hazardous waste at Bhopal's Union Carbide chemical plant, now owned by Dow Chemicals, will be incinerated at a facility at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh. Replying to a calling attention motion in the Assembly on Monday, Maharashtra Environment Minister Sanjay Devtale said the State government had opposed the burning of waste at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) facility near Nagpur.
The members of the treasury and the Opposition objected to the supply and burning of the solid waste — generated in Bhopal’s Dow Chemicals — at Taloja plant by Mumbai Waste Management Limited (MWML). The
Tons of wires, some burnt and some half-used with the copper jutting out, dozens of old mobile phones abandoned on shelves of hostels, hundreds of broken capacitors and plenty of old P3 computers — these are merely some things that comprise the vast mass of e-waste generated from colleges, a real treasure trove for recyclers.