Articles for Waste Plastic

Fountain pens
1 week, 6 days ago

Fountain pens

The Hindu  

In an attempt to reduce plastic waste, the Tiruchi Corporation has planned to launch a campaign to promote the usage of fountain pens instead of ballpoint pens among students. As part of the cleanliness drive, the civic body will conduct an awareness campaign in schools to encourage students and teachers to use ink pens. As a first step, the Corporation …

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Can the World Unite to End the Plastic Pollution Crisis?
1 month ago

Can the World Unite to End the Plastic Pollution Crisis?

Live Mint  

-- The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution are opening in South Korea with deep divisions over the need to stem the rising flood of the material, a rift that threatens to scupper a two-year long quest for a deal. A coalition of nearly 70 nations, including Rwanda, Norway and the UK, is pushing for …

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Cleaning Up Pristine Beaches Means Spotting Plastic Trash From Space
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cleaning Up Pristine Beaches Means Spotting Plastic Trash From Space

Live Mint  

-- Plastics are ubiquitous in natural systems, and tiny pieces of the material have been found everywhere from the Arctic to the Mariana Trench. To test a theory that satellites could help detect the waste on beaches, Jenna Guffogg hauled discarded scraps from a clam-shell child’s pool, bubble wrap, single-use PET bottles and a blue polyester tarp to her local …

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Governor signs California plastic bag bill into law
3 months ago

Governor signs California plastic bag bill into law

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California’s plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ban the environmental blight. “Plastic bags create pollution in our environment and break into microplastics that contaminate our drinking water and threaten our health,” said Jenn Engstrom, state …

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Dog poop on hikes: I am begging you not to bag it and leave it.
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dog poop on hikes: I am begging you not to bag it and leave it.

Slate  

Recently, on a hike with a friend, among towering Douglas fir and western hemlock trees, by a glassy, pebble-rich creek, we saw giant plops of black-bear scat every few hundred yards. To be clear, I am not completely against the existence of plastic dog poop bags, and their usage in many settings. But I think just plain old dog poop …

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Startup Mantra: Transforming waste to save environment
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Startup Mantra: Transforming waste to save environment

Hindustan Times  

While almost everyone will berate the use of plastic and how it damages the environment, not many will get down to doing something about it. But for Medha Tadpatrikar and Shirish Phadtare, founders of Rudra Blue Planet Environmental Solutions India Limited, who while on a safari holiday, found a deer that died because it had ingested plastic bags, the problem …

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MPCB issues closure notice to manufacturing unit in Pune after plastic seizure
5 months, 1 week ago

MPCB issues closure notice to manufacturing unit in Pune after plastic seizure

Hindustan Times  

After seizing 300 kg of plastic from a Kondhwa-based manufacturing unit on June 29, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on July 10 issued a closure notice to the unit for violating plastic- manufacturing and storage norms. After obtaining permission, the board on July 10 issued closure notice to the manufacturing unit in question. The closure notice stated, “The unit that …

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Remoulding the Global Plastics Treaty
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Remoulding the Global Plastics Treaty

The Hindu  

As discussions still continue for an international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, it becomes crucial to consider how it can support a fair transition for individuals who collect and recycle waste informally. Editorial | Plastic solution: Beyond the Global Plastics Treaty These workers collect, sort and recover recyclable and reusable materials from general waste, alleviating municipal budgets of financial …

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Chemical recycling to reduce plastic waste
8 months ago

Chemical recycling to reduce plastic waste

China Daily  

A recent report called for intensified efforts to tap chemical recycling as a key solution to addressing plastic pollution, considering its potential to dispose of low-value plastic waste that is difficult to recycle. Citing statistics from the Plastic Recycling Association, an affiliate of the China National Resources Recycling Association, a news release from the academy said about 62 million metric …

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In Lucknow’s waste-side story, plastic peril paints grim picture
8 months ago

In Lucknow’s waste-side story, plastic peril paints grim picture

Hindustan Times  

The plastic menace is a giant of a problem towering over Lucknow, cocking a snook at the ban on the use of single use plastic and posing a serious health hazard as modernisation and consumerism disturb the environmental equilibrium. The Chowk Nala area, which lies behind the famous Bada Imambara, is covered in plastics Nearly 300 metric tonnes of plastic …

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Plastic-to-diesel plant takes roots in Ram Nagri
1 year ago

Plastic-to-diesel plant takes roots in Ram Nagri

Hindustan Times  

The temple-town Ayodhya has been undergoing a rapid transformation in various quarters, encompassing religious tourism, infrastructure and innovative works, all centred around the grand Ram Temple. However, there is also a lesser-known environmental care project in progress in ‘Ram Nagri’ to address its plastic waste and litter management. “The plastic waste will be converted to crude oil and then refined …

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How Anne-Marie Bonneau, the ‘Zero Waste Chef,’ broke up with plastic
1 year, 4 months ago

How Anne-Marie Bonneau, the ‘Zero Waste Chef,’ broke up with plastic

LA Times  

The greatest sin in most American households is our addiction to plastic water bottles. So says Anne-Marie Bonneau, who writes the food blog “ Zero-Waste Chef ” and is the author of “The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet.” But even though Bonneau has been plastic-free since 2011, she doesn’t want anyone to “get …

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Prepare DPR of K-Shore Blue Pack project to curb plastic waste menace: Eshwar Khandre
1 year, 4 months ago

Prepare DPR of K-Shore Blue Pack project to curb plastic waste menace: Eshwar Khandre

Deccan Chronicle  

Mangaluru: Taking a significant step towards preserving the marine ecosystem and the Western Ghats, Karnataka Minister of Forest, Ecology, and Environment, Eshwar Khandre, directed the officials to formulate a Detailed Project Report of the proposed K- Shore Blue Pack project. Khandre highlighted the urgency of addressing the dire consequences of plastic pollution, emphasizing that the plastic waste piled up across …

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Volunteers head off plastic waste crisis by removing tons of rubbish from Hungarian river
1 year, 4 months ago

Volunteers head off plastic waste crisis by removing tons of rubbish from Hungarian river

Associated Press  

TISZAROFF, Hungary — Thousands of muddy plastic bottles, chunks of Styrofoam and other waterlogged pieces of rubbish are piled onto a flatbed trailer on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary — a metric ton of waste that was removed by hand from the waterway and its floodplain in a single day. Volunteers stand in a live chain to …

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Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers
1 year, 4 months ago

Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers

NL Times  

The extent of the plastic soup in the oceans may be much smaller than assumed for the past two decades. Estimates ranged from 50 million tons to 300 million tons of plastic waste floating in the oceans. According to them, rivers, in particular, bring much less plastic to the ocean than previously thought. The previous plastic soup estimates were based …

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Plastic Waste Management Falls Under Preservation Of Environment: ITAT Allows Income Tax Exemption
1 year, 5 months ago

Plastic Waste Management Falls Under Preservation Of Environment: ITAT Allows Income Tax Exemption

Live Law  

The Chandigarh Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has allowed the Income Tax exemption for the Punjab Plastic Waste Management Society and observed that plastic waste management falls under the preservation of the environment.The bench of A.D. Jain And Vikram Singh Yadav has quashed the order of the Commissioner of Income Tax. The Chandigarh Bench of the Income Tax …

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Craig Reucassel on making War on Waste 3 and what he learnt that shocked him
1 year, 5 months ago

Craig Reucassel on making War on Waste 3 and what he learnt that shocked him

ABC  

Craig Reucassel has learnt a lot about rubbish and recycling over the six years since he became the face of the ABC's War on Waste program. "I don't want to freak people out, I don't want anyone to think that they're going to get cancer, we've got to be cautious about recognising that there's still a long way to go …

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Albury Wodonga kerbside soft plastic recycling trial could go national
1 year, 8 months ago

Albury Wodonga kerbside soft plastic recycling trial could go national

ABC  

There is hope a kerbside soft plastic recycling scheme on the New South Wales and Victorian border will have what it takes to go national. Key points: The National Plastics Recycling Scheme project trials involved about 7,000 households Halve Waste ran a soft plastics trial with 2,000 households in Albury Wodonga There's hope the trial could be expanded out nationally, …

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​After Fly Ash, Waste Plastic & Phosphor-Gypsum, Steel Slag Being Tested To Build National Highways
1 year, 9 months ago

​After Fly Ash, Waste Plastic & Phosphor-Gypsum, Steel Slag Being Tested To Build National Highways

News 18  

Going ahead with the Union government’s ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission and marching towards environmentally sustainable national highways construction, the NHAI is testing the use of steel slag, a by-product of steel making, in road construction. This initiative by National Highways Authority of India comes days after it announced that it is testing the use of phosphor-gypsum, a by-product of fertilizer …

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Fire at Kochi’s Brahmapuram waste treatment plant has become an annual phenomenon
1 year, 9 months ago

Fire at Kochi’s Brahmapuram waste treatment plant has become an annual phenomenon

The Hindu  

Plastic waste piled up at Kochi Corporation’s solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram has gone up in smoke without fail every year since 2019. In fact, at least one major fire and numerous fires of varying intensity have been reported from the plant in the last five years, taking firefighters from several hours to several days to douse the fire …

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Want to lead a zero-waste lifestyle? Here is how you can start
2 years, 5 months ago

Want to lead a zero-waste lifestyle? Here is how you can start

The Hindu  

I recently found a stash of chocolate wrappers in my drawer. “I once saw a string cot woven with strips made from plastic covers,” he says, “It shone in places because of the variety of colours used.” Gupta says his mother too wove mats out of plastic covers: repurposed bits of used clothes for dusting, and distributed leftover food to …

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Amended plastic waste rules to be effective July 1
2 years, 5 months ago

Amended plastic waste rules to be effective July 1

The Hindu  

The Mangaluru City Corporation will enforce the amended Plastic Waste Management Rules 2021 that expanded the ban on single-use plastic to include plastic sticks used in earbuds, ice creams, plastic plates, cups, etc., on July 1. The State government banned single-use plastic items, including carry bags, banners, buntings, flex, plates and cups, in March 2016 itself. The Union Ministry of …

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Big fight brewing over California ballot measure to reduce single-use plastics
2 years, 8 months ago

Big fight brewing over California ballot measure to reduce single-use plastics

LA Times  

Gulls flock to a trash boom littered with plastics and other waste near the mouth of the Los Angeles River after a 2015 storm. “And while we’ve achieved incremental reforms in labeling and process in respect to plastics, we really haven’t tackled the reality that we are drowning in plastics.” The initiative — known as the California Recycling and Plastic …

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Australia's plastic recycling industry changes are fast taking effect
2 years, 8 months ago

Australia's plastic recycling industry changes are fast taking effect

ABC  

If Australians haven't noticed the changes being made to how, when, and where they recycle plastic, they will in the coming months. Key points: More changes to Australia's plastic export industry will come into effect from July 1 Australia will increase its domestic capacity for plastic reprocessing from 227,000 tonnes in 2020–21 to at least 420,000 tonnes by 2025 There …

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