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Strawberry production leaves long-term plastic pollution: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
esearchers discovered that the plastic mulch used to help Californian strawberries grow sheds a large amount of plastic mulch fragments. These particles have been shown to have a negative impact on soil quality, casting doubt on their long-term viability. The survey's findings are likely to
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Carter Road Clean Up Drive celebrates 100 weeks combating plastic pollutio
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9: When 5 youth decided to make a difference and clean up 3.5 km Carter Road, Bandra it seemed a Herculean task. They formed Carter Clean up on 24th June 2021. Soon they formed an army of volunteers.
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Andhra: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation launches 'Eco-Vizag' t
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) on Monday launched a new campaign titled 'Eco-Vizag' for citizens to participate in the fight against air and plastic pollution.
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On World Environment Day, HP CM launches a campaign to raise awareness abo
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
We have over 100 workers today taking part in the campaign, and we have divided the city into five major zones. We collect 80 tons of garbage on a daily basis; we will also start a plantation drive and adopt one zone. All 40 councilors of Shimla MC will participate in it. We would try to
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World Environment Day: Tripura CM Saha attends plantaion drive, urges to l
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
This year's World Environment Day's theme is 'Beat Plastic Pollution'.
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"Plastic has emerged as a serious threat": NHRC on World Environment Day
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"This year's theme very aptly underlines the urgent need to combat the detrimental effects of plastic on our planet and promote alternative eco-friendly usable replacing single-use plastic material, which is necessary to preserve human life and protect rights. In this regard, rigorous policy
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Ahmedabad's Great Gamified Cleanup collects half a ton of waste on Earth D
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 25 (ANI/NewsReach): Ahmedabad's Great Gamified Cleanup successfully collected half a ton of waste on International Earth Day, April 22, 2023. The Earth Day Network India, in collaboration with the Gujarat Forest Department, the British Deputy High Commissio
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Instruments like blended finance and credit enhancement needed to facilita
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): Absence of new instruments to facilitate long-term lending and bottlenecks to free trade are the key challenges in bringing down the cost of green hydrogen, enabling its production in size and scale and, thereby aiding the decarbonization of
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Matter, an Electric Mobility Startup, and EARTHDAY.ORG pay tribute to Moth
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]. February 10 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Matter, an electric mobility startup, and EARTHDAY.ORG pay tribute to Mother Earth at Kala Ghoda Art Festival with an "earthMATTERS" art installation. Matter, with its vision of driving India to a sustainable future, collabo
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Progression Global organised India Green Awards to honor individuals and f
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI/PNN): Ashish Nandan Shrivastava, CEO of Progression Global, organised India Green Awards on January 11, 2023, at Udaipur Labhgarh Palace. The theme of this unique event was Environment Protection, Plastic Pollution, Green Infrastructure, Climate Change, Car
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Scientists reveal that plastic pollution in the oceans is an equity issue
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Many people are aware of plastic pollution in the oceans. Photos of turtles or seabirds entangled in plastic garbage first went viral in the 1990s, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now the focus of highly publicized cleanup efforts.
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Tackling plastic pollution with a net of law and chemical coding: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
An innovative proposal to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis with a combination of DNA-like encoding of plastics and international law has been put forward by a transdisciplinary team of QUT researchers.
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