Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021

Environment Ministry notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 on August 13, 2021. Highlights These new rules prohibit specific single-use plastic items with “low utility and high littering potential by the year 2022. Under it, manufacture of a range ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2021

European Union bans Export of Plastic Waste to poor countries

The European Union recently announced that it is to completely ban the exports of unsorted plastic to poor countries. The new rules of the European Union will amend the 2006 Waste Shipment Regulation. The new rules are to ban the ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

CSIRO: 14 million tonnes of microplastics on sea floor

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian government agency has recently found that the world sea floor is littered with more than 14 million tonnes of microplastics. These microplastics have entered the floor Through The breakdown of ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020

KVIC’s Reducing Plastic in Nature Project completes 1 year

Khadi and Village Industries Commission’s (KVIC) REducing PLAstic in Nature (REPLAN) project has completed one year. The project was launched in September 2018 as part of KVIC’s commitment to Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. It aims to remove existing waste plastic material ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019

CPCB and Plastic Waste Management

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has pulled up 52 companies for not specifying a timeline or a plan to collect the plastic waste that results from their business activities. Plastic Waste Management Rules As per the Plastic Waste Management ..

Indian Proposal to Halt Waste Dumping Defeated

A proposal moved by India to prevent developed countries from dumping their electronic and plastic waste onto developing countries was defeated at the meeting of the Basel Convention in Geneva. The breakthrough was made through an amendment to the Convention ..