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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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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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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World Environment Day: Tamil Nadu to ban plastic bags, bottles
India is the host to this year’s World Environment Day and the theme is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution.’ Every year, June 5 is observed as World Environment Day to raise awareness and increase government action
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Beating plastic pollution in agriculture: World Environment Day special
The application of razor-thin sheets of polyethylene film across farmland began in the 1950s when agronomists noticed that it could successfully moderate soil temperature, limit weed growth and prevent
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Single-use plastics: a roadmap for sustainability
<p>If current consumption patterns and waste management practices do not improve, by 2050 there will be about 12 billion tons of plastic litter in land flls and the natural environment warns this new UN report released on June 5, World Environment Day 2018. It also provides a road map to reduce single-use plastics.</p>
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'Taj Mahal Declaration' adopted to fight plastic pollution near monument
AGRA: Ahead of World Environment Day on June 5, Union minister for culture and environment Mahesh Sharma on Sunday administered a pledge to Agra residents for making areas around Taj Mahal, in a radius
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The state of plastics: World environment day outlook 2018
The benefits of plastic are undeniable. The material is cheap, lightweight and easy to make. These qualities have led to a boom in the production of plastic over the past century. This trend will continue
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UN Human Rights urge protection of activists testifying in lead pollution case
Four United Nations human rights experts are calling for greater protection for Kenyan activists who have testified against a local lead-smelting plant accused of environmental pollution. Cases of lead
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Report on plastic free cleanliness drive
To become a part of World Environment Day 2018, CPCB has taken an initiative of “Plastic Free Cleanliness Drive” in collaboration with EDMC and IPCA in the CPCB premises and adjoining areas, which will
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EU may ban plastic straws, stirs, cotton buds
The European Union (EU) on Monday proposed a bloc-wide ban on single-use plastics such as straws and cutlery while urging the collection of most plastic drinks bottles by 2025. The proposals are part