Civic body in Assam’s Hailakandi opens ‘bank’ to collect, recycle single-use plastic items
The Hailakandi Municipal Board in south Assam’s Barack valley has opened a plastic bank where citizens can go and deposit single-use plastic items.
The Hailakandi Municipal Board in south Assam’s Barack valley has opened a plastic bank where citizens can go and deposit single-use plastic items.
Read more about Govt shelves plan on countrywide ban on single-use plastic products on Business Standard. The plan was for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to outlaw six items on Wednesday as part of a broader campaign to rid India of single-use plastics by 2022.
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This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s UNGA address on September 27, wherein he told the world that India was geared towards becoming a plastic-free nation, with a massive ongoing campaign in the country in this direction.
The orders come in accordance with the PM’s initiative of reducing plastic consumption in the country.With rumours about a nation-wide ban on single plastic set to be imposed on October 2…
The conference European Days for Sustainable Circular Economy will be held between 30 September and 1 October 2019 in Helsinki, Finland with a view to presenting the state of the circular economy and recommendations for promoting a sustainable circular economy based on the latest research data.
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A change is coming to Norwegian Cruise Line: It’s doing away with single-use plastic bottles on its ships. Norwegian announced Wednesday it is partnering with JUST Goods Inc. (founded by rapper, actor and activist Jaden Smith and his family) to eliminate plastic bottles on it cruise ships by Jan. 1 and replace them with JUST’s paper cartons. The company estimates it will save more than six million single-use plastic bottles each year.
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Even after enacting four major legislations in the last 20 years, we have not been able to eliminate even one single-use plastic product.
Ashlee Jahnke, director of research at plastic substitute specialist, Teysha Technologies, explains how a breakthrough in bioplastics could help to reduce the amount of single-use plastic.
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