Under CM Yogi Adityanath’s vision, Uttar Pradesh has launched plastic waste management in 304 development blocks, covering 515 urban blocks with MRFs to promote a clean, green, and plastic-free state.

NEW DELHI — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. For the first ...

Worldwide plastic waste totals more than 57 million tons a year, with India creating more than any other country, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers found that ...

Plastic waste turns up in many places, sometimes piled at the edge of a road, sometimes tucked behind homes. In a growing number of cities across the Global South, it also turns up in cooking fires. A ...

Ellen MacArthur Foundation says companies' virgin plastic use back to 2018 levels Drop in demand for recycled plastics affecting world's 20 million waste pickers In India, Plastics for Change connects ...

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid ...

As dawn breaks out over New Delhi, 15-year-old Alamgir Munna picks up his thela (cart) and heads out for work, such that it is. At an age when he should be in school, the young ragpicker sifts through ...

India was found to be the world’s worst polluting country. LONDON -- An estimated 52 million metric tons of global plastic waste emissions are produced every year, a new study by the University of ...

Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

Annual awards ceremony organised under ITC’s flagship solid waste management initiative – Wellbeing Out of Waste (ITC WOW) ...