A ban on the sale of single-use plastic bottles at all city-owned properties is set for an upcoming City Council vote. If adopted, Bill 18 would prevent plastic bottles having a capacity of 1 liter or ...

Efforts to curb plastic waste in the United States are accelerating, with a growing number of cities and municipalities enacting bans on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. These localized ...

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).

River Oaks Elementary students are joining a growing push to limit single-use plastics in Houston by asking Supt. Miles to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Manipur government is all prepared to carry out a massive drive against the use of single-use plastic (SUP) items from ...