The single-use plastics are also coming from Nepal and Bhutan,” Hakim said. A senior official of the PCB said the plastic waste management rules have entrusted the municipal corporations with the ...

Ranchi: Single-use plastic bags continue to be used with impunity across the state capital, three years after the ban was imposed on it by the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB).

Nearly two years after New Jersey’s plastic bag ban took effect, residents across the Garden State are still adjusting — and ...

Six years after Maine banned plastic retail bags, the Legislature is consider a slew of bills to strengthen the law, or ...

While the city of Charleston has a single-use plastic ban, Crowley and Wunderley said they worried about enforcement. “Every community around Charleston, except for North Charleston, has a singl ...

The Department of Environment's Mobile Court has instructed all launches departing from Sadarghat not to carry single-use plastic or polythene and to dispose of food waste and garbage in designated ...

imposed a total ban on all single-use bags from June 1, 2024 after banning single-use plastic bags in January 1, 2024. The civic body also outlined a ban on plastic stirrers, Styrofoam cups and ...

The bill would expand this ban to all single-use reusable plastic bags. “We know that the majority of these bags are ending up in our waste streams. They end up in our landfills. They're ending ...

Under the ban which began in June last year, its “Say No To Single-Use Plastic” programme head Mohd Fikri Fadzil said it was compulsory for the students to bring their own water tumblers and ...

Students from the Institute of Journalism Campus of the University of Media, Arts and Communications (UniMAC-GIJ) will ...

The order rolled back a previous policy aiming to phase out single-use plastic items, including straws, in federal operations such as food service, and directed the government to stop buying paper ...

Whole Foods confirmed the change, stating that the initiative, first launched in 2008, had achieved its goal: making reusable bags the norm. The grocery store's 17-year anti-plastic-bag policy was ...