Plastic pollution is a worldwide environmental challenge. In coastal West Africa, about 80 percent of plastic waste is mismanaged, posing escalating challenges to people, the economy, and the coastal and marine environment.

Report by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board in Original Application No 234 of 2023 (in re News item published in Newspaper Deccan Herald dated 01.03.2023 titled Unregulated tourism pushing Gokarna to the edge).

Gokarna Grama Panchayat falls under the jurisdiction of Kumta taluk in Uttara Kannada district. There was a complaint of open burning of municipal solid waste in Gokarna and burying of MSW mainly in its beach area.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Sandeep Kumar Gupta Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 07/07/2023.

The matter related to violation of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 and violation of the guidelines issued by the NGT by the Municipal Corporation, Hisar.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on June 27, 2023, issued notification for draft Green Credit Programme Implementation Rules 2023.

Six monthly progress report by the state of Meghalaya on OA 606 of 2018 (Compliance of MSW Management Rules, 2016).

Six monthly progress report on solid waste and liquid waste management of Manipur state in compliance with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order, December 12, 2022.

A team of officers from Department of Tribal Affairs & Hills and Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Urban Development, PHED and officials from Directorate of Environment and Climate Change have visited at Indore City for exposure of success story on waste management. Now, the team is preparing an integrated action plan for waste management in urban, rural and hill areas.

WASH in health care facilities is essential for quality care – on this there is universal consensus. Many countries are taking action, but more collaborative, focused and expansive effort and investments are needed.

The policy will strive for scientific management of e-waste by maximizing the e-waste collection through various means, integration of informal sector with formal sector and to ensure that all the collected e-waste is processed and recycled through authorized dismantlers/recyclers having environmentally sound e-waste processing facilities to m

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nirmal Kumar Tripathi Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 31/05/2023.

As global plastic waste continues to grow, the global community is coalescing to reduce plastic waste. Some stakeholders are also exploring new options to use plastic waste as partial substitute for raw material.

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