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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

Updated On: 22 Nov 2022 | 8:21 PM IST

Nestle has already made the switch; Dabur, Amul, Parle weigh options

Updated On: 14 Apr 2022 | 6:05 AM IST

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

Updated On: 09 Apr 2022 | 9:49 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 06 Apr 2022 | 1:00 PM IST

The company has outlined a host of short and long-term goals for 2030 with a commitment to sustainability, social impact and growth

Updated On: 22 Mar 2022 | 7:46 PM IST

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

Updated On: 26 Feb 2022 | 1:06 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 01 Feb 2022 | 6:53 PM IST

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.

Updated On: 24 Dec 2021 | 10:27 AM IST

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.

Updated On: 06 Dec 2021 | 8:50 PM IST

Colgate-Palmolive has introduced a sustainable innovation to the oral care industry with launching of 100 per cent recycled plastic handle toothbrush.

Updated On: 27 Nov 2021 | 2:18 AM IST

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

Updated On: 14 Aug 2021 | 4:19 PM IST

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.

Updated On: 10 Aug 2021 | 2:15 PM IST

The National Green Tribunal has directed all the states and union territories to implement guidelines for control of pollution in marriage and banquet halls

Updated On: 05 Feb 2021 | 4:18 PM IST

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

Updated On: 24 Jan 2021 | 9:01 AM IST

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based non-profit group set up two years ago by big oil and chemical firms

Updated On: 18 Jan 2021 | 11:38 PM IST

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

Updated On: 03 Jan 2021 | 8:45 PM IST

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

Updated On: 31 Jul 2020 | 6:08 PM IST

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

Updated On: 29 Jun 2020 | 6:29 PM IST

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.

Updated On: 19 Jun 2020 | 10:12 PM IST

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel had posted the matter for hearing on January 3, 2020

Updated On: 28 Jan 2020 | 5:10 PM IST