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Brown Living makes plastic-free living possible
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 4 (ANI/PRNewswire): In a resolute effort to curb plastic pollution, India has imposed a ban on single-use plastic products from July 1, 2022, a move that synchronizes with Plastic Free July, an influential global campaign empowering people to cut down on pl
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6 tonnes waste removed from Bhimli beach in Vizag
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 3 (ANI): As many as six tonnes of waste were removed from the Bhimili beach in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam, District Collector Dr A Mallikarjun informed on Sunday.
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Officials of Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation conducts inspection on ba
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], July 3 (ANI): Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation officials on Saturday conducted an inspection in local markets of the area and seized single-use plastic from the shops.
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Nearly 700 kg of plastic items seized in Delhi to curb single-use plastic
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): As the ban on single-use plastic came into effect on Friday, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) seized 689.01 kilograms of such items and issued 368 challans in its jurisdiction today.
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Ranchi shopkeepers welcome ban on single-use plastic items, say it should
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], July 1 (ANI): With the ban on identified single-use plastic items coming into effect from Friday, environmentalists and shopkeepers in Ranchi have welcomed the decision and said it should be banned strictly.
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Delhi's Lajpat Nagar market welcomes ban on single-use plastic
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Delhi's famous Lajpat Nagar market welcomed the ban on single-use plastic that came into effect on Friday across the country.
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Dharmendra Pradhan appeals to citizens to reduce use of single-use plastic
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Puri (Odisha) [India], July 1 (ANI): Soon after the Central government banned the single-use plastic, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday appealed to people to avoid using it during the Jagannath Rath Yatra urging the citizens to turn the move into a "mass movement".
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Norway welcomes India's single-use plastic ban, praises PM Modi for 'impor
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Norway's charge d'affaires, Martine Aamdal Bottheim on Friday welcomed the Centre's decision of 'single-use plastic ban' in India and congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking the 'important step.'
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Ban on single-use plastic kicks in; Check the banned items and how much yo
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): In yet another significant step to reduce the menace of plastic pollution, the Centre has issued guidelines to states asking them to ban the use of select single-use plastics effective from July 1, 2022.
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Ban on single-use plastic comes into effect from today
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The ban on select single-use plastics by the Centre in order to reduce plastic wastage comes into effect from today.
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LyondellBasell announces renewable energy power purchase agreements
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Houston [Texas], June 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): LyondellBasell has signed its first two U.S. power purchase agreements (PPA) supporting the company's climate goal to procure a minimum of 50 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030. The combined agreements represent 216 megawatts (MW
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Delhi: Fire breaks out in plastic godown
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): A massive fire broke out in a plastic godown late on Saturday night in the Badli area behind Rohini jail in the national capital.
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