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Twenty firms responsible for over half of all global single-use plastic waste

May 21, 2021 By Nick Witts Leave a Comment

A plastic-polluted river in Tamil Nadu. Image credit: Ð Ñ–ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ñ Ð†Ð²Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ†ÑŒ / 123rf

New research has revealed for the first time that just twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world. This marks an enormous contribution to the vast majority of the plastics pollutants in landfills, oceans, and the environment in general. The comprehensive new analysis published by […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories Tagged With: environment, environmental health, plastic, plastic waste, Pollution, River Ganga, river Ganges

Plastics in a time of COVID: An interview with Dr Vijay Habbu

April 30, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Dr. Vijay Habbu, plastics interviewee.

Health Issues India in partnership with SPAG Asia hosted the webinar “In Times of COVID-19, Can Medical Care Be Delivered Without Using Plastics?” One of the participants was Dr Vijay Habbu, Polymer Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai. In advance of the webinar, I spoke with Dr Habbu to discuss this […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories, Interviews Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Exclusive Interviews, plastic

Modi launches single-use plastic campaign

September 12, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

A plastic-polluted river in Tamil Nadu. Image credit: Ð Ñ–ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ñ Ð†Ð²Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ†ÑŒ / 123rf

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has again appealed for India to end the use of single-use plastic for the good of the environment.  Attending an event in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Modi joined a group of trash collectors and sorted through waste with them, separating plastic from other refuse. The day saw the launch of a ‘Swachata […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, National, News, Sanitation, Social issues Tagged With: Narendra Modi, plastic, plastic waste, Pollution, sanitation

Single-use plastic ban announced on six products

August 29, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Image credit: Tetyana Kochneva / 123rf

A ban on six single-use plastic products is being put in place as part of the Centre’s ongoing war on plastic pollution and quest for an India free from the menace of plastic pollution.  From October 2nd, plastic bags, cups, plates, small bottles, some sachets, and straws will be prohibited from being imported, manufactured, sold, […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured, National, News Tagged With: environment, plastic, plastic waste, Pollution

Recycling plastic into diesel: A novel approach

August 29, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

The garbage left on the streets and streets. Image credit: Ali Cobanoglu / 123rf

Recycling is one of the main ways we are encouraged to limit our output of plastic waste. In Dehradun, the Council of Scientific Research’s Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP) is taking a somewhat novel approach to the practice by converting plastic waste into diesel oil. A plant for this purpose has been established at the […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured, Featured Stories, Medicine and Research, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: environment, environmental health, plastic, plastic waste, Pollution, Uttarakhand

Plastic ban calls in the face of an environmental crisis

August 20, 2019 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

A plastic-polluted river in Tamil Nadu. Image credit: Ð Ñ–ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ñ Ð†Ð²Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ†ÑŒ / 123rf

One of India’s leading youth politicians has called for a plastic ban to be enacted. “The need of the hour is to ban production, usage and sale of plastic,” proclaimed Aditya Thackeray, who leads the youth wing of the Shiv Sena political party. In an earlier tweet, Thackeray said “banning production, use and sale of […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories, National, News Tagged With: environment, environmental health, Narendra Modi, plastic, plastic waste, Pollution

Plastic import ban comes into effect in August

June 29, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

A plastic-polluted river in Tamil Nadu. Image credit: Ð Ñ–ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ñ Ð†Ð²Ð°Ð½ÐµÑ†ÑŒ / 123rf

In March this year, the Indian government announced a measure to curb pollution — banning the importation of waste plastic. This policy will come into force from August. The measure was suggested following similar policies being implemented in China in order to curb the amount of plastic waste imported from other nations, particularly those in […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured, Government policy, International, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: plastic, plastic waste

India’s problem with plastic waste

April 3, 2019 By Kerean Watts 1 Comment

Imagine you were told your country produces 660,787.85 tonnes of plastic waste. Then imagine being told that that is not even forty percent of the story. This is the worrying implication of a new report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), which reveals that its 660,785.85-tonne estimate for India’s plastic waste production reflects data […]

Filed Under: Environmental health, Featured Stories, National, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: environment, environmental health, plastic, Pollution

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