Plastic waste News

A village in Sadiwara, located in the Anantnag district of South Kashmir, has implemented a unique and highly successful environmental initiative where residents can exchange 20 quintals of plastic waste for a gold coin. This campaign, known as "Give Plastic, Get Gold."

'Bring plastic waste, take gold' scheme was started in a village in Anantnag. This is such a campaign which made the entire Gram Panchayat plastic free within 15 days. See the positive analysis of plastic free village!

In the order issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of the Ministry of Environment, it was said that from July 1, 2022, 19 types of single-use plastic products will be banned in the whole country. But today, even after two and a half months, this order has remained confined to paper only. Despite the ban, these single-use plastic products are still being used fiercely.

How serious is the problem related to plastic in the world you can understand it from the WHO report which says that 99 percent of the world's population is forced to breathe toxic air today.

Today in DNA, see plastic is used in India despite the ban. Today we will show a report that will stun you. Know what is the truth behind the ban on 19 types of plastic.

Plastic waste weighing 15 kg was removed from the stomach of a stray cow by veterinary doctors in Odisha. A team of veterinary doctors operated on the six-year-old cow for around three hours. Polythene bags, wrappers and other plastic wastes were removed from the stomach of the cow.

A group of recyclers in the Philippines are trying to tackle the country's soaring plastic waste crisis by turning bottles, single-use sachets and snack food wrappers that clog rivers and spoil beaches into building materials.

An Indonesian cafe is jumping on the bandwagon of the global "Squid Game" craze by recreating some of the games played in the Netflix drama in its cafe space.

A nurse has used plastic waste as a raw material to create artwork in Brighton. Sammie started carrying out daily beach cleaning just before the lockdown. During lockdown she began to make use of some of colourful waste she found transforming them into rainbow collages of art.

Environmentalists in Indonesia keen to send a message about the world's worsening ocean plastics crisis have created a museum made entirely from plastics, to convince people to rethink their habits and say no to single-use bags and bottles.

Corona vaccine has arrived, but when will we get rid of the plastic, because now the plastic has reached the mother's womb.

The cafe offers snacks in exchange for 250 gms of plastic and a full meal in return for 1kg of plastic waste.

PM Modi also stated that a plastic-free India could be an example for the whole world. 

Ambikapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) is all set to open a first-of-its-kind 'Garbage Cafe', which will give free food to poor people and rag pickers in exchange for one kilogram of plastic. 

A Ministerial order with respect to the technical regulations for plastic products will come into effect on July 21, 2019, Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported on Wednesday.

For the study, the research team tested low-density polyethene and mixed a variety of waste plastic products like water bottles, milk bottles, plastic bags and ground them down to around three millimetres, or about the size of a grain of rice.

The team's analysis also found that species tend to congregate in areas that overlap "microplastic pollution hotspots", which include the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia.

The findings, published in the journal Science, add to the burden of climate-related disease outbreaks that have already had an impact on coral reefs globally.