Keeping in-line with India’s commitment to eliminate all single-use plastic products by 2022, Goa has finalised a blanket ban on the single-use plastics in the state, which is expected to come in effect by September ...
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Karuna Raju asked parties not utilise single-use plastic material as it causes adverse impact on human health and environment ...
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The single-use plastic ban is part of the comprehensive ‘Single-Use Plastics Directive’, aimed at reducing ocean pollution ...
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“These bags have blighted our environment and clogged our waterways," Governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo said, adding that the ban imposed on single-use plastic bags would protect our natural resources for future generations ...
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The resolution adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly on addressing single-use plastic pollution urges members to develop national or regional plans, propose environment-friendly alternatives and improve waste management practices ...
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Ms. Joyce Msuya also praised India's commitment to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022, calling it a tremendous move ...
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The Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management & Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 amendment has been done keeping into consideration the 'Ease of Doing Business' and boosting 'Make in India' initiative ...
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The petitioner seeking the ban has claimed that the campaigning material made of plastic are used during the elections and later discarded as waste, which is extremely harmful for the environment ...
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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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