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#BeatPlasticPollution: Global Alliance Of Companies To Eliminate Plastic Waste Launched With Thirty Member Companies

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PTI
January 17, 2019
The Global alliance, aimed at beating plastic pollution, is a not-for-profit organisation that includes chemical and plastic manufactures, consumer goods companies, retailers, converters and waste management companies among others ...
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Meet 58-Year-Old Man From Manipur Who Is Using Plastic Waste To Make Brooms

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Written By: Barkha Mathur | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 16, 2019
A 58-year-old innovator from Manipur has found a way of re-using the disposed of plastic water bottles to combat the problem of plastic pollution in the state while also generating income for the people of his village ...
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It’s A War! Attack Plastic In Four Ways – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle And Help #BeatPlasticPollution: Singer Sonu Nigam

It’s A War! Attack Plastic In Four Ways – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle And Help #BeatPlasticPollution: Singer Sonu Nigam

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 15, 2019
Noted Singer Sonu Nigam urges people to fight plastic pollution by refusing, reducing, reusing and recycling plastic waste to become a truly clean and swachh nation ...
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Dia Mirza Questions Everyone On How Much Waste We Are Generating, Says It Is Time To Rethink

Dia Mirza Questions Everyone On How Much Waste We Are Generating, Says It Is Time To Rethink

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 14, 2019
Actor Dia Mirza asks manufacturers to do their bit for the environment and implement Extended Producers Responsibility wherein they responsibility of managing plastic packaging waste ...
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Swachh Airports: Airports Authority of India Bans Single-Use Plastic Items at 129 Airports

Swachh Airports: Airports Authority of India Bans Single-Use Plastic Items at 129 Airports

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 9, 2019
Airports Authority Of India has decided to make 129 airports in the country single-use plastic free, out of which 16 airports have successfully become plastic free ...
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Unbelievable How A Toilet Can Change Lives: Actress Dia Mirza Backs Swachh Bharat Mission

Save The Planet And Give Up The Use Of Glitter, Actor Dia Mirza Urges Netizens

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 8, 2019
Actor Dia Mirza asks netizens to start a war on glitter, urges them to ditch the use of glitter items and make celebrations eco-friendly ...
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Plastic Pollution: This French Actor’s Organisation Is Converting Plastic Waste Into Fuel

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Written By: Aishwarya Upadhyay | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
January 8, 2019
The Earthwake Association backed by noted French comedian and actor, Samuel Le Bihan aims to collect and recover plastic waste and has invented a machine that can convert plastic into various types of synthetic fuels ...
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Sustainable Bioplastics Developed From Sea-Weed Eating Microorganisms To Fight Plastic Pollution

Sustainable Bioplastics Developed From Sea-Weed Eating Microorganisms To Fight Plastic Pollution

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Written By: Barkha Mathur | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
December 27, 2018
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have developed a technology to make sustainable biopolymer using marine microorganisms that feed on seaweeds which may one day free the world of plastic - one of its worst pollutants ...
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UNDP And Coca Cola Join Hands With Bhubaneshwar Municipal Corporation To Manage The Plastic Waste In The City

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Written By: Aishwarya Upadhyay | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
December 24, 2018
To help Bhubaneshwar tackle plastic waste, UNDP, Coca-Cola and BMC have signed a memorandum for introducing ‘Swachhta Kendra’ that aims to ensure collection and segregation of all types of plastic waste from various sources ...
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Plastic Is Choking Our Planet, To Save It, This City Has A Solution - Anti-Slippery And Recyclable Tiles

Plastic Is Choking Our Planet, To Save It, This City Has A Solution – Anti-Slippery And Recyclable Tiles

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia
December 20, 2018
To tackle the issue of growing plastic menace, Bengaluru’s non-profit organisation is making tiles that are made out of plastic alone and can be reused and recycled multiple times ...
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This Holiday Season, Jharkhand’s Capital City Aims At Keeping Its Tourist Sites Plastic Free

This Holiday Season, Jharkhand’s Capital City Aims At Keeping Its Tourist Sites Plastic Free

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Written By: Barkha Mathur
December 19, 2018
In a bid to curb plastic pollution in major tourist sites in and around Ranchi, the State tourism department has banned use and throw plastic items and deployed 93 ‘Paryatak Mitras’ (Friends of Tourists) who will be aided by policemen by at seven tourist sites to keep a watch at the litterbugs ...
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#BeatPlasticPollution Take ‘Plastic Upvaas’ And Bid Adieu To Any One Single-Use Plastic Item

#BeatPlasticPollution: Take ‘Plastic Upvaas’ And Bid Adieu To Any One Single-Use Plastic Item

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Written By: Aastha Ahuja | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
December 13, 2018
Chintan and Canada in India (High Commission of Canada), have initiated a month long campaign called ‘Plastic Upvaas’ to urge people to give up single-use plastic and #BeatPlasticPollution ...
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