Plastic Pollution

A mobile app for Single Use Plastics Grievance Redressal was also launched to empower citizens to check sale/usage/manufacturing of SUP in their area and tackle the plastic menace

The partnership will bring together Maharashtra's leading policymakers, business leaders, among others to formulate a state-level plan to eradicate plastic pollution

Here is what five leaders believe are the priorities and perspectives a global treaty on plastic pollution offers

Circulate Capital, the Singapore-based investment management firm announced on Tuesday that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed up to $20 million for fighting plastic pollution

Australia's national science agency and the federal government have formed a partnership with Indonesia to address plastic pollution in the Indo-Pacific

Just after 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution to end plastic pollution, the UNEP will commemorate the 50th anniversary of its creation in a special two-day session of the UNEA on Thursday

The fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEP) commenced at Nairobi on Monday with India submitting its national statement on Tuesday

In her address at the assembly being held in Nairobi, she also said that India had piloted a resolution on addressing single-use plastic product pollution in the last UNEA in 2019

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Penalise violators, incentivise the unorganised sector

Lack of will to comply and challenges in enforcing the rules and regulations have been an issue

A government committee has identified items to be banned based on an index of their utility and environmental impact.

The company responsible for more plastic pollution than any other, according to the Break Free From Plastic Campaign,

Under this innovative concept, in exchange of plastic waste, free meals will be provided to citizens by a restaurant in Vardhman Mall, Dwarka, the SDMC said in a statement

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vowed to take the Indian people along in a nationwide commitment to end the use of single use plastic

Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based-NGO working in the environmental sector, plans to invest between $70 million to $100 million in India over the next five years

The plastic ban in India, which had just started to take effect, has been substantially derailed given current needs and with enforcement systems looking the other way.

Plastic processors say that is much thicker than global standards

In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed his concern on single-use plastics

Listen to Jyoti Mukul and Ankur Bhardwaj as they discuss the questions surrounding a blanket ban on single-use plastics in this special Business Standard podcast