Page 5 - Plastic Waste

Coming soon: India's first garbage cafe set to open in Chhattisgarh

In a bid to provide a full meal to ragpickers and homeless, this cafe is asking them to come with plastic waste and in return get free food

Rethinking circular economy

It was in 1991 when the then chief economist of the World Bank, Larry Summers, had advocated that toxic waste, polluting factories should be moved to least developed countries

What plastic waste import ban? This loophole leads to influx of PET bottles

India banned the import of plastic waste - particularly PET bottles -in 2015 because of an inability to recycle them

How Malaysia is turning into a 'trash can' for global plastic waste

Used plastic is recycled into pellets, which are then used to manufacture other plastic products, but the process comes with pollution risks

Plant for converting e-waste into bio-diesel to be up by Jan: Harsh Vardhan

The ministry has drawn up a list of over 500 deeds to motivate and involve the masses in environment protection

A retrograde step: New rules for plastic waste dilute earlier norms

The notable provisions of the 2016 rules that have been tinkered with include phasing out of multi-layered plastics