Mayank Jain from Chennai has substituted around 10,000 plastic straws with reusable steel straws within a period of three months ...
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The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has laid down standard guidelines to be followed by the states and Union Territories regarding single-use plastics and asserts that the government offices and events must completely ban all types of plastic ...
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Muzaffarpur has become the cleanest city of Bihar and the first city in North India to follow waste segregation at source, the waste management model of the city is being adapted by the other local bodies in the state ...
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Teenagers Jai and Preet Aswani from Chennai aim to make one lakh cloth bags from old bedsheets and pillow covers to replace plastic carry bags, post plastic ban in Tamil Nadu ...
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In a bid to draw the tech-savvy generation’s attention to the plastic ban of Tamil Nadu in Thoothukudi, an IAS officer has started a social media challenge asking people to share pictures of their cloth bags and nominate their friends to do the same ...
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Madurai Municipal Corporation has organised an exchange drive for 15 days starting from December 31, 2018 where thousands of citizens are depositing their plastic items and receiving cloth bags in return ...
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India generates 5.6 million tonnes of plastic waste annually and it aims to eliminate single-use plastic items by 2022. Here’s a look at steps taken by some of the states in 2018 to fight against plastic pollution ...
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From December 23, the Bihar government imposes a complete ban on the manufacture, store, import, transport, sale and use of plastic carry bags in the state ...
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Maharashtra state environment minister Ramdas Kadam said children are the carriers of change and through the cloth bags they can promote the plastic ban at home ...
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After plastic was banned in Tirupati town on October 1, a plastic ban will now be implemented in the Tirupati Balaji temple from November 1 onwards ...
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From plastic cutleries, tobacco wastes to fishing net gears, here’s what the European Union, world’s second-largest consumer market after the United States, plans to ban by 2021 ...
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State Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam said if banned plastic is found inside the premises of prayer places including temples, mosques, churches and gurudwaras, an action will be taken against them ...
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