Shyam Ranganathan

Come August 1, and the villagers of Chinchinim will launch an ambitious plan to make the village plastic free.
Wednesday saw the garbage management Committee of Chinchinim village Panchayat on Wednesday organising a rally with school students to create awareness amongst the villagers on the issue of garbage and the ill effects of the use of plastic.

Brazil will send 89 shipping containers of garbage, rotting and maggot-infested, back to Britain and has issued $419,000 in fines to the three Brazilian companies that imported it, the government said on Monday.

Resentment prevailed among polythene bag manufacturers and sellers against the state government for its decision to impose blanket ban on the use of polythene and disposable plastic crockery in the state from August 15. They demanded that the government should save 2.5 lakh people of the state depending on the trade from starvation.

The UAE is all set to phase-out plastic bags in the country over the next three years, even as substitutes like jute or paper bags are being suggested to be used by 2012. Following a cabinet decision, the ministry of Environment and Water will educate consumers to use alternatives, media report said here.

Learning lessons from recently afflicted garbage crisis, the Corporation of the City of Panaji has now decided to be stricter against plastic bags in its jurisdiction.

Shimla: The categorical statement of Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh that replacing polythene bags with paper was not an eco-friendly solution, has put a damper on the state

CUTTACK: After over a year of the imposition of ban on recycled polythene in the State by the Orissa High Court, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) seems to have finally woken up to the issue.

It is set to launch a massive enforcement drive to free the millennium city from the hazardous waste by prohibiting its manufacture, import, sale and use.

Says Ban Does Not Put Manufacturers Out Of Business
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Making it clear that banning the use of plastic bags in certain locations of capital does not prohibit the manufacturer to produce plastic bags, the High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of plastic manufacturers challenging the Delhi governments notification on the ban.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging a Delhi Government notification imposing a complete ban on use of plastic bags in the Capital, saying that