In bid to check pollution due to use of plastic bags, the Maharashtra state government has decided to target manufacturers and stockists of plastic bags below thickness of 50 microns.
The Supreme Court today asked state governments to be sympathetic towards animals by banning plastic bags which are consumed by stray cattle making them suffer.
The Bombay High Court has asked Central Railway to file a reply to a PIL seeking a direction to re-impose the ban on plastic bags of food items at platforms on suburban network and in local and long-distance trains.
Plastic shopping bags - an abundant source of litter on land and at sea - can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, shows a promising research led by an Indian-origin researcher.
Scientists have developed a new method for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial.
Over two months after a blanket ban on use of plastic bags was imposed, traders across the national capital have been flouting it, thanks to slack enforcement and lack of a cost effective alternative.
A plastic manufacturers` association on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court challenging the city government`s notification imposing a blanket ban on plastic bags in the capital.
The Delhi government has set a deadline of December 22 to stop manufacture, sale and storage of plastic bags in the national capital.
The Delhi government has set a deadline of December 22 to stop manufacture, sale and storage of plastic bags in the national capital.
The Delhi government has set a deadline of December 22 to stop manufacture, sale and storage of plastic bags in the national capital.
Millions of pilgrims visit the holy shrines associated with Sri Krishna in Mathura district, round the year.
The Supreme Court Monday said it would consider whether to completely ban the use of plastic in the interests of animals and the environment.
The Delhi government will impose a blanket ban on usage and manufacturing of plastic bags in the next two months.
Currently, around 400 plastic bag manufacturing units are operating in Delhi.
The Delhi government on Monday decided
to impose a blanket ban on the manufacture, storage and use of
plastic bags in the city.
Sale of plastic or polythene bags has been banned in the vicinity of rivers or any other water body after Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi gave his assent to an ordinance in this regard, an official spokesman said here Thursday.
China has banned ultra-thin plastic bags in ecologically fragile southwestern Tibet Region.
The Government on Wednesday ruled out a
blanket ban on plastic bags and said waste management at the
local level should be improved to ensure that the waste did
not become an environmental hazard.
The Supreme Court today virtually
ruled out the possibility of relaxing the ban imposed on use
of plastic bags by the Delhi Government by stressing on the
"havoc played" by them.
The Delhi government today told
the High Court that it has implemented the notification
banning use of plastic bags and carried out a number of
enforcement drives following which cases have been registered
against violators.
