Biodegradable bags from next year onwards
Ministry of Housing Transport and Environment has revealed that bags produced in Maldives must be biodegradable, effective from next year.
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Outraged Brazil Ships Rubbish Back To Britain
A ship loaded with 1,600 tonnes of rubbish set sail on Wednesday to return the rotting cargo to Britain from Brazil, where it had been shipped falsely declared as plastic for recycling.
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US scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
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Guidelines on solid and liquid waste management (SLWM) in rural areas
This policy framework is intended as a guide to assist states in developing their own policies for solid and liquid waste management in rural areas. As such, it does not prescribe what should be in the
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding solid waste management in the state of Meghalaya, 13/12/2017
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Environment Pollution & Health Hazards in the State Vs State of Meghalaya & Others dated 13/12/2017 regarding
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Minister gets tough with polluting units
Water polluting industries in the state will no longer have the advantage of personal hearings to
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Make Elephanta plastic-free, environment minister tells gram panchayat
Mumbai In an effort to make the Elephanta Island
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Unscientific disposal causes environmental degradation
Rakesh Lohumi The hype created by the government over the proposed ban on polythene bags and other plastic wares notwithstanding, the environemtntally-sensitive hill state has a dismal track record in solid-waste management.
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Polythene users to be penalised
The violation of ban on the use of polythene carry bags and plastic items having one-time use being imposed from August 15 will attract penalty ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 25,000, depending on the quantity of prohibited material recovered.
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Polythene ban resented
Resentment prevailed among polythene bag manufacturers and sellers against the state government for its decision to impose blanket ban on the use of polythene and disposable plastic crockery in the state from August 15. They demanded that the government should save 2.5 lakh people of the state depending on the trade from starvation.
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News Snippets
>> TV movie distributers in the US have reduced plastic content in their DVD cases, making it 20 per cent lighter.Though reducing plastic waste is being cited as a motivator, thinner cases are also less expensive when it comes to the cost of raw material and shipping. Companies like Sony Entertainment, Walt Disney and Warner are spearheading the initiative >> Radio Erena (
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Plastic makes this girl go green
AHMEDABAD : She saw an innovative green idea' in trash bins full of discarded gutkha pouches and empty food packets. Sixteen-year-old Hetal Vaishnav has invented a new technology to help recycle multi-layered food packets which can be used in making furniture.
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Sheila Govt. firm on plastic bag ban
NEW DELHI: Days after Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh spoke against the ban on plastic bags, the Delhi Government has taken a strong stand supporting the ban and has decided to intensify its drive to
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Where is it going?
More than half of the plastic produced in India is used for packaging. Poly vinyl chloride forms a large part of the plastic consumption
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Safety dance over plastic
Just how harmful are baby bottles, eyeglasses and other bisphenol-A plastics? Patricia Hunt, who helped to bring the issue to light a decade ago, is still trying to sort it all out.
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Green shopping
Supermarkets in Sri Lanka pitch in to eradicate plastic menace supermarkets in Sri Lanka have come together to discourage the use of plastic shopping bags. As part of a three-phase environmental campaign, they have joined hands with the Central Environmental Authority (cea) and introduced eco-friendly shopping bags, mostly made of jute, at a nominal rate. The bags are being made available
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Lack of regulations, awareness leads to rampant use of polythene bags
GUWAHATI, April 30
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Plastic surgery: HC gives power to pollution control panel
Neha Sinha New Delhi, August 13 Now, DPCC can search, confiscate material from illegal plastic manufacturing and recycling units in city Giving its ruling on arguably the city's biggest choker and polluter, plastics, the Delhi High Court has given more teeth to the normally toothless Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).
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Dumping waste in plastic bags banned
Court orders prosecution of ban violators A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday prohibited dumping of waste in plastic carry bags or bags made of any other non-biodegradable material in
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Personal care products pack toxic microbeads
As we finish using an aesthetically designed tube of toothpaste, face wash or face wash, thousands of microbeads and microplastics would have mixed with the water systems, thereby causing serious environmental