Plastic Ban

The Modi government's plan to outlaw single-use plastics on Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, has been shelved.

This year from October 2, Odisha will ban the use of plastic in its five municipal corporation areas and the pilgrim town of Puri. On Tuesday, 10th July 2018, chief minister Naveen…

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people, on Friday 6 July, announced a plastic ban on items including plastic cups and polythene from July 15, in its third such…

McDonald's and Starbucks were the first one to get on the radar of the team. A team of 250 officials, wearing blue uniforms and dubbed as Mumbai’s “anti-plastic squad”, has been deployed to…

The state of Maharashtra seems to be embroiled in the debate and aftermath of what seems to be an issue of high magnitude: the plastic ban. On March 23, the State Government of Maharashtra…

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has backtracked on its proposal to fine-tune the penalty amount levied by the state government in the plastic ban. Days after it proposed…

Plastic is everywhere. Right from the moment you wake up to the moment you sleep, you use a minimum of 6 products in a day and… that’s bad. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into…

Does India have an answer for toxic plastic? Years of continuous plastic usage has made us dependent, we are living in a pool of plastic and one way not so far we will perish. Unless we…

On the occasion World Environment Day, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami announced today ban on plastic products in the state from next year. Palaniswami said, "The ban will…