India’s medical waste management system is putting the environment at danger, and its 198 common bio-medical waste treatment facilities and 225 captive incinerators are already overburdened. While PPE kit trashContinue Reading
Cool Food Pledge — a rising movement of companies, hotels, colleges, hospitals, and restaurants seeking to reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2030 relative to a 2015 baselineContinue Reading
The Sikkim Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has advised the state government to prohibit the use of plastic bags with a thickness of less than 75 microns by the end ofContinue Reading
We’ve known for a long time that so-called “chemical recycling” is a bogus answer since converting plastic into gasoline is not recycling. Plastic manufacturers prefer to talk about “chemical recycling”Continue Reading
The Snow Marathon in Lahaul is being organised to raise awareness and take action on one of the Himalayas’ most pressing issues: waste management. The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) environmentContinue Reading
Old solar panels contain silicon, which can be recovered and processed to make new solar cells, according to a news release from Fraunhofer ISE, one of Germany’s finest scientific organizations.Continue Reading
The phrase “fast fashion” was created to refer to mass-market merchants’ rapid creation of affordable apparel. The method used in developing, manufacturing, and marketing these fashion trends is centered onContinue Reading
For decades, makers of textiles including apparel and home furnishings have turned to the persistent toxic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to make their products resist waterContinue Reading
