Schools urged to eliminate single use plastics by 2022
Government also confirms previously trailed plans to raise plastic bag levy from 5p to 10p across all shops in England…
Source: www.businessgreen.com
Government also confirms previously trailed plans to raise plastic bag levy from 5p to 10p across all shops in England…
Source: www.businessgreen.com
Odisha government has banned single-use plastic in all urban areas of the state from Gandhi Jayanti Day on Wednesday, an official said.
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The large Nov. 25 fire at the North Augusta’s Materials Recovery Recycling Facility has disrupted Aiken County’s recycling operations, and County Administrator Clay Killian doesn’t know when things will be back to normal. Recyclables such as plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard, magazines and newspapers that people have taken to the county’s Recycling Drop-Off Centers now are being transported to the Three Rivers Waste Authority Regional Landfill at the Savannah River Site instead of North Augusta.
The Congo Basin is the second-largest rainforest on Earth, and like most tropical forests, it’s getting chewed up by humans. That’s a problem for the climate, and not just because trees are a natural sponge helping to mop up humanity’s ever-rising carbon emissions. New research suggests that as trees are replaced with fields for agriculture, carbon that’s been locked up in the Congo’s soils for hundreds to thousands of years is starting to seep out. Soils hold a tremendous amount of carbon—more than the atmosphere and living vegetation combined.
The European Parliament voted to ban single-use plastic.With an overwhelming majority of 571 votes vs 53 against, MEPs backed the proposal aiming to…
Seven UN entities have come together, supported by the World Economic Forum, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to call for an overhaul of the current electronics system, with the aim of supporting international efforts to address e-waste challenges.