Plastic Pollution

World Oceans Day: Watch a stunning video of a pair of dolphins flip and spin in the air on World Oceans Day. Know the threats to marine life and how we can protect them.

World Oceans Day: June 8 is marked as World Oceans Day. Oceans play a major role the in the lives of people globally. Plastic pollution is a huge threat to marine life and marine ecology. Here are few facts about plastic waste management

Sri Lanka launched a criminal probe on Sunday into a massive container ship fire that has swamped the island nation's coast with plastic pollution in an unprecedented marine disaster.

The animated video shows PM Boris Johnson giving a speech on tackling plastic pollution before being drowned in a wave of plastic pouring from above

Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use Covid masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars.

World Consumer Rights Day is observed every year on March 15. The theme for Consumer Rights Day 2021 is "Tackling Plastic Pollution". The aim is to promote sustainable practises for clean surroundings and respectings rights of consumers or the grakak. The Consumer Rights ministry is already running a 'Jago Grahak Jago' campaign.

Popular soft-drink brand Coca-Cola has announced that they are testing new paper bottles that are environment-friendly and sustainable.

Compiled by https://portfolio.earth, a research network, the report ranked Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co as the three biggest financiers of plastics between January 2015 and September 2019.

Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.

The world's sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every year, according to Australia's national science agency.

Scientists have found bits of polystyrene in the guts of tiny, soil-dwelling organisms in the Antarctic, raising concern that microplastics pollution has already "deeply" entered the world's most remote land-based food systems.

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to inform it about coercive steps taken against e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart for non-compliance of plastic waste management rules.

Xiaomi’s new face mask also offers better air restriction, which again means polluted air will not enter through gaps and it lowers chances of catching an infection.

Indonesia's finance minister proposed on Wednesday new duties on sweetened drinks, vehicles that emit carbon dioxide and plastic bags, to control consumption of the products in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

A picture clicked at the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand shows three tigers playing with a piece of plastic.

World Oceans Day: Watch a stunning video of a pair of dolphins flip and spin in the air on World Oceans Day. Know the threats to marine life and how we can protect them.

World Oceans Day: June 8 is marked as World Oceans Day. Oceans play a major role the in the lives of people globally. Plastic pollution is a huge threat to marine life and marine ecology. Here are few facts about plastic waste management

Sri Lanka launched a criminal probe on Sunday into a massive container ship fire that has swamped the island nation's coast with plastic pollution in an unprecedented marine disaster.

The animated video shows PM Boris Johnson giving a speech on tackling plastic pollution before being drowned in a wave of plastic pouring from above

Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use Covid masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars.

World Consumer Rights Day is observed every year on March 15. The theme for Consumer Rights Day 2021 is "Tackling Plastic Pollution". The aim is to promote sustainable practises for clean surroundings and respectings rights of consumers or the grakak. The Consumer Rights ministry is already running a 'Jago Grahak Jago' campaign.

Popular soft-drink brand Coca-Cola has announced that they are testing new paper bottles that are environment-friendly and sustainable.

Compiled by https://portfolio.earth, a research network, the report ranked Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co as the three biggest financiers of plastics between January 2015 and September 2019.

Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.

The world's sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every year, according to Australia's national science agency.

Scientists have found bits of polystyrene in the guts of tiny, soil-dwelling organisms in the Antarctic, raising concern that microplastics pollution has already "deeply" entered the world's most remote land-based food systems.

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to inform it about coercive steps taken against e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart for non-compliance of plastic waste management rules.

Xiaomi’s new face mask also offers better air restriction, which again means polluted air will not enter through gaps and it lowers chances of catching an infection.

Indonesia's finance minister proposed on Wednesday new duties on sweetened drinks, vehicles that emit carbon dioxide and plastic bags, to control consumption of the products in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

A picture clicked at the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand shows three tigers playing with a piece of plastic.