Tag: Plastic Pollution

Meet Manveer Singh, a visual artist from Delhi popularly known as "PlasticWalla." He is spreading awareness on plastic hazards and his campaign made a stop in Puri. Manveer built this 15-feet Olive Ridley sea turtle artwork at Puri Beach using plastics.

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged people to reaffirm the commitment to a cleaner and sustainable planet and pledge to beat the plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is also the theme of the World Environment day, being hosted by India on Tuesday. “On the World Environment Day, we […]

London: In what shows how far plastic pollution has spread, scientists on an expedition have discovered such pollution on remote frozen ice floes in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. A team of scientists led by marine biologist Tim Gordon of the University of Exeter in Britain carried out research on two sailing boats as part […]

Bhubaneswar: Ban on the use of single-use plastics will come into force across Odisha on occasion of Gandhi Jayanti tomorrow. According to reports, the State government will enforce the ban on manufacturing, selling, trading, importing, storing, carrying, transporting and distributing with help of single-use plastics in all cities of the State from tomorrow. Earlier, the […]

Tokyo: An international team of researchers has found that the combined environmental threat of plastic pollution and ocean acidification are having significant impacts on species living in our oceans. The study, published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, found that after three weeks of being submerged in the ocean, the bacterial diversity on plastic bottles […]