Let Delhi breathe

Hospitals and hotels asked to use degradable plastic

Dump wars

Fungi can even chew on plastic when it comes to food  

Living in Hell

Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame

Sweet smell of death

Chemicals from cosmetics, adhesives and plastics can disrupt hormone function and cause birth defects

Beyond the odds

Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their 'environmental awareness' campaign

Book review: Plastics for Environment & Sustainable Development

For those concerned about the 'plastic age' in which we live, this 'eco-assessment study' is a must read. But do not go by the report's name, for …

Plastic waste can be used for decontamination of water

This newly developed low-cost magnetic nanomaterial has the adsorptive potential for cephalexin from the water

Future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good

Tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year, but a switch away from petroleum-based products to bio-derived and degradable composites could …

Lethal mix

Hormone disruptors like BPA and BPS cause more harm when acting in combination

A way to live with the demon

Plastic is here to stay. We have to find ways to use it smartly

Bottled up by plastics

In the pay of plastics

India's biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West's fashion for unsustainable living

In the dragnet

Proposal opposed

Activists and residents protest plan to install pvc plant

Bytes

Biodegradable at last

Use of organic catalysts to usher in a new range of plastics  

No polybags in Tripura

ON SEPTEMBER 16, the Tripura government's 20-month-old law banning plastic bags became more stringent. Seeking to remove the crinkles in the …

Apocalyptic vision

BOOK>> WHEN A BILLION CHINESE JUMP, HOW CHINA WILL SAVE MANKIND—OR DESTROY IT • By Jonathan Watts, Faber & Faber • …

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

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Plastic from weed

Water hyacinth can be used to make biodegradable polymer

Plastic clothes

Discarded plastic is being recycled into clothes

Packaging plastic policy

It is time we examined the whole issue of packaging, plastics and recycling

Plastic ponds