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Shami backs PM Modi's move to ban single-use plastic
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 20 (ANI): Indian pacer Mohammed Shami on Friday extended support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative of banning single-use plastic in a programme organised by Hindustan Petroleum in Amroha.
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How movement against single-use plastic is gaining strength
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 19 (ANI): India produces 26,000 tonnes of plastic every single day out of which over 10,000 tonnes remain uncollected!
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Railway installs plastic bottle crushing machine in Mumbai Rajdhani Expres
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 19 (ANI): In an eco-friendly bid, the Western Railway for the first time has installed a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle crushing machine in Mumbai Rajdhani Express.
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Build movement for conserving water, removing single-use plastic: VP Naidu
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Sept 18 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday called upon students, teachers and all educational institutions to build a movement for water conservation and shunning single-use plastic.
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Bengaluru: VV Puram food street to shun single-use plastic as part of envi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Sep 18 (ANI): On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 69 th birthday, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Tuesday stated that Bengaluru's popular VV Puram food street will be turned into a plastic-free zone with dedicated slots being reserved for pedestrians o
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Govt aims to phase out plastic in packaging: Paswan
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 17 (ANI): The Government aims to phase out plastic use in packaging and move towards 100 per cent use of jute in packaging foodstuff, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, said here on Tuesday.
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Delhi: JW Marriott Aerocity paves way to sustainability with India's first
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Sept 17 (ANI/BusinessWire India): JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity has initiated its path to sustainability by going 'plastic-free' with its flag-ship water treatment and purification plant that is programmed on Artificial-Intelligence technology, the first in the country.
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Railways to conduct "Massive Shramdan" drive, focus on collection of plast
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Indian Railways will undertake one more drive of "Massive Shramdan"on September 17 with main focus on "Collection of Plastic Waste", said a release.
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AP's Krishna leads fight against single-use plastic
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have given a clarion call to shun single-use plastic last month, but Krishna district administration has been working on a plan to promote the use of cloth and jute bags as an alternative for the last two
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WB: Forest Range Officer creates garden using plastic bottles, rubber tyre
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Midnapore (West Bengal) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): A forest range officer (FRO) of Pirakata Range under Midnapur division has created a beautiful garden using 1,100 waste plastic bottles and rubber tyres.
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SDMC intensifies efforts against use of polythene bags, issues 350 challan
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 14 (ANI): In a bid to intensify efforts to ban single-use plastics, South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Saturday announced that it had issued challans worth more than eight lakh in the last 10 days.
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Indian Railways to provide chai, snacks in earthenware at 400 railway stat
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 12 (ANI): In a bid to shun the use of single-use plastic, Indian Railways will now serve tea, lassi, snacks and other food items in earthenware at 400 major stations across the country.
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