Tag: plastic
Plastics And Threat To Asian Elephants
Plastics are a World menace and no one is spared from the Himalayas to the depth of the oceans. A new study...
Flood of Plastic in Arctic
Right from water to the seafloor, remote beaches to rivers and even in ice and snow, high concentrations of plastic can be...
Ganges Dolphin At Higher Risk of Plastic Litter
The River Dolphin and Gharial (a crocodile species) in the Ganges river and the Mekong catfish, Irrawaddy dolphin and the Eastern Imperial Eagle in...
Micro Plastics Stay in Rivers For Long Periods
In contrast to earlier assumption that micro plastics never stay in rivers as the water is in continuous flow, a group of researchers now...
Poles Carry NanoPlastics; study
For the first time, nano plastics have been found in both the polar regions, which indicates that the tiny particles have now spread in...
Plastic in Agri Land; Urgent Intervention Need of the Hour
The world is much aware of plastic pollution of the water bodies, beaches and oceans. But a new report from the Food and Agriculture...
Plastic Worries Haunt Water Bodies In Covid Times
COVID-19 pandemic generated more than eight million tonnes of plastic globally, with over 25.000 entering the oceans. Of all the Plastic wastes, hospital waste...
Plastic Leakage Into Water Bodies to Double by 2030
A growing plastic pollution leakage into aquatic ecosystems in recent years is projected to double by 2030, with dire consequences for human health, global...
Plastic Cleaning Up Drains The Economy
The pollution, emissions and clean up costs of plastic produced in 2019 alone could be over 3.7 trillion dollar, which is more than the...
India Prohibits Single Use Plastic By 2022
keeping in view the adverse impacts of littered plastic on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, India banned single use plastics that have low utility...
