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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
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Twenty-nine countries have jointly pledged more than $5 billion for the Global Environment Facility, providing a major boost to international efforts to protect biodiversity
Diversified entity, ITC Ltd on Wednesday said it is accelerating its move to go beyond plastic neutrality, having sustainably managed more than 54,000 tonnes of plastic waste across India in 2021-22.
The company has outlined a host of short and long-term goals for 2030 with a commitment to sustainability, social impact and growth
For the first time in history, we are seeing unprecedented global momentum to tackle the plague of plastic pollution, said UN Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen
WHO says overuse of gloves, moon suits and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of health care waste worldwide.
The Tamil Nadu government is developing a strategy to buyback plastic products and to be set up Reverse Vending machines in association with FMCG companies.
India's plastic waste generation has more than doubled in the last five years with an average annual increase of 21.8 per cent, the Centre said on Monday.
Colgate-Palmolive has introduced a sustainable innovation to the oral care industry with launching of 100 per cent recycled plastic handle toothbrush.
Lack of will to comply and challenges in enforcing the rules and regulations have been an issue
An NGO has recycled 6,772 million tonnes of plastic waste here in the last three years in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to eliminate single use plastic by 2022.
The National Green Tribunal has directed all the states and union territories to implement guidelines for control of pollution in marriage and banquet halls
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
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based non-profit group set up two years ago by big oil and chemical firms
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
In September 2019 the e-commerce firm had pledged to meet this goal in an accelerated time frame by June 2020, in an effort to build an environmentally sustainable supply chain
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.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel had posted the matter for hearing on January 3, 2020