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Problem not with plastic: VP calls for responsible use of plastics
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh | Amaravati
PUBLISHED ON DEC 28, 2020 05:13 PM IST
He said plastics played a significant role during the Covid-19 pandemic through their wide use in medical protection equipment and PPE kits.
Multi-layered plastics form 44% of total plastic waste in city: Swach audit
By Namrata Devikar | Hindustan Times, Pune
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 05:44 PM IST
The audit was a part of a global initiative by Break Free From Plastic to identify producers of plastic waste
Ambala to ban single-use plastic and polythene bags from November 1
By Asian News International | Posted by Deepali Sharma | Ambala
UPDATED ON OCT 30, 2020 03:16 PM IST
Municipal Corporation, Ambala City, has requested shopkeepers to not give goods to customers in polythene bags. To customers, it has requested not to accept such bags
Chandigarh admn lifts ban from three categories of plastic
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JUL 03, 2020 01:51 PM IST
Marks them as ‘extended producer responsibility’, making manufacturers responsible for their disposal.
Arjun Kapoor urges all to reduce use of plastic to fight climate change
By Asian News International | Soumya Srivastava
UPDATED ON JUN 05, 2020 08:06 AM IST
Arjun Kapoor has shared a video on Instagram, asking all to be more careful in how they treat the planet.
Karnataka govt orders NGOs to avoid distributing food in plastic bags
By Asian News International | Begaluru
PUBLISHED ON APR 29, 2020 06:07 AM IST
According to the government, during Covid-19, not only government departments and agencies but also various organisations and NGOs are providing meals to workers in polythene covers.
These Buddhist monks are recycling plastic bottles into robes
By Reuters | BANGKOK
UPDATED ON FEB 06, 2020 01:47 PM IST
The monks have crushed 40 tonnes (88,185 lb) of plastic over two years since starting the programme, aiming to curb plastic waste entering the Chao Phraya River, which flows south to the Gulf of Thailand in the western Pacific Ocean.
Here’s where your plastic goes: Inside marine species
By Badri Chatterjee, Mumbai
UPDATED ON DEC 24, 2019 05:07 PM IST
Eat meal, pay in plastic. Odisha’s waste management scheme wins Internet
By Asian News International | Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON DEC 18, 2019 02:28 PM IST
The ‘Meal for Plastic’ initiative has been rolled out in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the state government’s Aahar Scheme.
HT and National Museum of Natural History essay contest: Spotlight on single-use plastic and saving water
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 11, 2019 03:11 PM IST
Students expressed their views on two major problems faced by India at the competition
Shiv Nadar University team discovers plastic-eating bacteria
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 10, 2019 04:31 PM IST
Researchers at Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida on Thursday announced the discovery of two strains of plastic-eating bacteria that have the potential to solve the problem of plastic waste globally.
Meat vendor in Arunachal Pradesh replaces plastic bags with leaves, impresses Kiren Rijiju
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 08, 2019 01:27 PM IST
PM Modi has called for freeing the country of single-use plastic items by 2022.
Plastic will choke India in the long run. Tackle it | Analysis
By KumKum Dasgupta | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 05, 2019 04:54 PM IST
What is most troubling is not the plastic challenge in cities because they would still have the first access to information, technology, funds, and expertise to tackle the problem. The real challenge lies in smaller towns and kasbahs
Children in Pinjore demand plastic-free India
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 03, 2019 03:04 PM IST
Important or interesting events that took place in Chandigarh school recently.
32,000 NDMC school students say no to plastics
By Indo Asian News Service | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 03, 2019 11:47 AM IST
To get rid of the menace of plastics, which posed threat to the life and environment, was the need of the hour, said NDMC Chairman Vijay Kumar Dev.
UP couple builds homestay using plastic bottles in Uttarakhand
By Suparna Roy | Hindustan Times, Dehradun
UPDATED ON OCT 03, 2019 11:10 AM IST
They wanted to give a message of using plastic in a better way in the mountains, instead of making the himalayas a dumping ground.
Single-use plastic banned in Chandigarh
By HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON SEP 28, 2019 12:56 AM IST
Violation to invite up to five-year jail and fine of Rs 1 lakh
Donate plastic to Mumbai NGO to make items out of it
By Badri Chatterjee | Mumbai, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 26, 2019 03:19 AM IST
Educational institutes such as St Xavier’s College and Cathedral School; residents of 20 buildings in Hiranandani, Powai and more than 75 buildings in Goregaon; schools from Kandivli to Peddar Road; and individuals from Thane and Navi Mumbai, have registered to donate their plastic waste under the Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon-Ek Baar Phir! initiative, from October 2 to October 8.
Plastic out, bottles from home back as Parliament goes green
By Saubhadra Chatterji | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2019 05:05 AM IST
According to two senior officials involved in the purchase of water bottles that were widely used in the Parliament complex, an average of 2,000 bottles of Rail Neer, a product of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, were bought daily.
Watch | Discontinuing single-use plastic: How easy, how difficult
By Hindustan Times | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 18, 2019 10:52 AM IST
In this episode of Metro Matters, a weekly show on everything that matters to Delhi, Hindustan Times metro editor Shivani Singh speaks to Swati Singh Sambyal, programme manager (waste management) at the Centre for Science and Environment, about the feasibility of discontinuing the use of single-use plastics following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to shun such items.
North MCD to ask religious establishments to use steel crockery, shun plastic
By Baishali Adak | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 17, 2019 10:10 AM IST
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation will also make school students “brand ambassadors” of the anti-plastic campaign.
Lilly, Thailand’s Greta Thunberg, wages ‘war’ on plastic
By Agence France-Presse | Bnagkok
PUBLISHED ON SEP 16, 2019 06:26 PM IST
Whether it’s for wrapping up street food, takeaway coffees or for groceries, Thais use 3,000 single use bags per year -- 12 times more than someone from the European Union.
Major cleanliness drive in UP villages to focus on single-use plastic
By Brajendra K Parashar | Lucknow, Lucknow
UPDATED ON SEP 15, 2019 10:35 PM IST
The campaign against the single-use plastic has already gained momentum in cities and it may now resound in villages as well after October 2.
PM lauds Fever FM’s drive against plastic
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 13, 2019 01:40 AM IST
Last month, during his monthly radio address to the nation, ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the Prime Minister had pitched for launching a “new mass movement” against single-use plastic from October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
PM Modi on teachers’ day seeks participation of teachers in curbing single-use plastic
By Asian News International | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 05, 2019 04:54 PM IST
“If teachers explain to the students the harm caused to our environment by single-use plastic and advice them to shun it, students will feel motivated to become a part of the cause. This would be a great tribute to beloved Bapu on his 150th Jayanti,” he added.
Delhi zoo’s last Cape Buffalo dies after eating plastic
By Joydeep Thakur | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2019 06:29 AM IST
In his Independence Day speech this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to avoid using plastic bags and rid themselves of the habit of using single-use plastic by October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Universal Public school Delhi starts drive against plastics
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2019 11:20 AM IST
Important or interesting events that took place in Delhi-NCR schools recently
UGC asks universities to ban single-use plastic
By Indo Asian News Service | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 03, 2019 03:43 PM IST
The move comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a mass revolution against single-use plastic from October 2, which will mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Forest officer’s innovative use of plastic bottles to grow plants wins Twitter
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON AUG 30, 2019 05:14 PM IST
Pictures show how he has decorated the entire garden with plants growing in plastic bottles.
Plastic to petrol: IIP scientists develop tech to counter ecological threat
By Neeraj Santoshi | Hindustan Times, Dehradun
UPDATED ON AUG 28, 2019 04:04 PM IST
The mission is to develop a technology that will not only help in disposing of the plastic but will also result in generating revenue from it. After much effort, the institute developed a technology to convert plastic into petroleum products such as diesel, petrol and other aromatic compounds.
