Articles for Plastic Ban

Ban on wet wipes containing plastic unveiled to help UK’s rivers
8 months ago

Ban on wet wipes containing plastic unveiled to help UK’s rivers

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Wet wipes containing plastic are finally set to be banned across …

Ban Plastic Westminster Email View Wet Wipes Wet Wipes
Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia to bring in new single-use plastic bans
1 year, 3 months ago

Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia to bring in new single-use plastic bans

ABC  

New rules banning single-use plastics, including microbeads and polystyrene packing peanuts, will come into effect in parts of the country on Friday. "What we've now got in Australia is a bit of a race to the top to see who's going to lead in terms of banning single-use plastics," Australian Marine Conservation Society's plastics campaign manager Shane Cucow said. Western …

Australia Western South Australia Western Australia Plastics Plastic Ban Queensland South
Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say
1 year, 5 months ago

Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say

Dutch News  

Campaigners have called for efforts to ban cigarette filters to be stepped up after volunteers collected over 600,000 cigarette butts on Plastic Buttsmut Day. The initiative, which started life in 2019 in Amsterdam and is called Plastic PeukMeuk in Dutch, is aimed at raising awareness about the damage the plastics in discarded cigarette filters do to the environment, but campaigners …

Netherlands Ban European Filters Cigarette Cigarette Filters Beerenfenger
India is moving away from single-use plastics
1 year, 5 months ago

India is moving away from single-use plastics

Hindustan Times  

Estimates suggest that about seven billion of the 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic produced between 1950 and 2017 became plastic waste, ending up in landfills or dumped. The ministry of environment, forest and climate change adopted a two-pronged strategy to tackle unmanaged and littered plastic waste by placing a ban on single-use plastic items and effective implementation through extended producer …

Plastic Pollution Waste Pti Ban Items Plastics Plastic Waste
38% of shops violate plastic ban, says a Corporation survey in 15 zones
2 years, 2 months ago

38% of shops violate plastic ban, says a Corporation survey in 15 zones

The Hindu  

Over 38% of the 12,883 shops which were inspected during a drive conducted in the last two weeks by the Greater Chennai Corporation were found to be using banned plastics. Most shops in zones such as Tiruvottiyur, Madhavaram and Tondiarpet were found using banned plastics. As many as 411 out of 471 shops that were inspected during the period in …

Zone Ban Corporation Shops Plastics Banned Inspected
Andhra Pradesh: Implementation of single-use plastic ban ineffective in Kurnool, Anantapur
2 years, 3 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Implementation of single-use plastic ban ineffective in Kurnool, Anantapur

The Hindu  

The implementation of the ban on single-use plastic has been the most ineffective in undivided Kurnool and Anantapur districts with the supply lines of carry bags, packing material for hotels and small restaurants/eateries continuing uninterrupted. While the Kurnool Municipal Corporation has been at the forefront in implementing it for a long time, during the current phase of the ban from …

Plastic Ban Plastic Ban Ineffective Municipal Health Kurnool Municipal Ban Ineffective
Violating norms, GHMC uses hazardous plastic during elections
4 years ago

Violating norms, GHMC uses hazardous plastic during elections

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The over-enthusiastic Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials have once again erected over 200 flexies and hoardings at DRC centre, polling stations and polling locations despite plastic ban being imposed in the city. Flexies can be seen in all voter awareness campaigns, monsoon action team vehicles, instant repair team vehicles and the corporation has promoted through huge amounts of plastic …

Ban Plastic Polling Stations Plastic Ban Norms Ghmc Flexies