PANJIM: Plastic bags, straws, cutlery and other disposable plastic items will soon disappear from Goa, as the State government is mulling a complete ban on single-use plastics from September 2019.

Twenty-five tonnes of waste -- including some 50,000 flip-flops -- were collected in a five-week clean-up on the Seychelles’ remote atoll of Aldabra.

Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has declared a total ban on all single-use plastic carrier bags with effect from June 1, this year, a statement from the Prime Minister's Information and Co

A Chinese firm opened a 4.5 billion shilling (45 million U.S. dollars) plastic waste recycling plant in eastern Kenya on Monday to help curb environmental degradation.

That was said by the minister for State in the Vice President's Office (Union and Environment), Mr January Makamba, during a question-and-answer session in Parliament today, April 8.

Officials of the Municipal Corporation raided various business establishments in the city today and recovered Rs 73,000 as fine after challaning 49 shops for using polythene.

The Kenyan press is reporting "an outcry" over a ban on all plastic bags coming into effect today.