Four lakh carrybags are used in Thrissur every day

It took school children to show what the elders failed to do in the city. Alarmed by the increasing environmental threat posed by plastic, students of Devamatha CMI Public School in the city launched an anti-plastic drive by distributing 1,700 paper carrybags at the Sakthan Thampuran market on Friday.

Traders in Tirunelveli district still use them: Collector

Since the traders across the district are still using and selling the use-and-throw non-recyclable non-degradable plastic bags and cups despite the ban that came into effect on June 1 last, District Collector R. Selvaraj has warned that the district administration would take all-out efforts and stringent measures to impose the ban completely and seize the banned products from the sellers.

GUWAHATI, June 12 – Opposing a blanket ban on the use of plastic, the North Eastern Small Scale Industries Association (NESSIA) along with Central Institute of Plastic Engineering Technology (CIPET

New Delhi: Mother Dairy, the largest milk supplier in NCR, announced on Tuesday that it would sell loose milk in different parts of Delhi and NCR through eco-friendly vans called ‘Kamdhenu’.

GUWAHATI, June 4 – To mark the World Environment Day tomorrow, leading cement brand Topcem today announced free distribution of one lakh non-woven eco-friendly carry bags in the city.

MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR) has banned the sale of food items packed in plastic wrappers or non-bio-degradable material at its Jan Ahar centres at CST.

MUMBAI: Activist Medha Patkar will now take up the cudgels for railway stall operators who are upset with the Central Railway's ban on food items sold in plastic and metallic packets.

The Bhojanchal Youth Association at a memorandum to Mr.Jayant Mallayya, Environment Minister of Madhya Pradesh, has urged that the guidelines given the Madhya Pradesh High Court about the prohibiti

The damaged internal roads and waterlogging inside the solid waste treatment plant are hampering the clearing of accumulated waste and fertiliser at Brahmapuram Municipal Solid Waste Treatment plant of the Kochi Corporation.

Water from the nearby water body is reaching the floor of the plant and soaking the waste. A temporary bund has been constructed for preventing water incursion. When it rains, the rain water too spreads dampness on the waste, making the processing nearly impossible, said the officials of the agency which took up the assignment to run the plant.

The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) will soon issue notification prohibiting distribution of plastic carry bags free of cost to the customers within Guwahati Municipal area.