Tag: plastic
Adapting Policies Could reduce Plastic Pollution by 80 Per cent
Plastic pollution could reduce by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies, according to a new report by UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Synthetic Fibres Add to the Worry of Antarctica
The discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea has once again...
Bacteria; A Better Way against Plastic Pollution
In a major development, a group of scientists have found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the...
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...
