PLASTIC HAZARD

SOUTH AFRICA

Packaged afresh

Cinderella's carriage

Biodegradable plastic car parts can be made from miscanthus grass

The great Pacific garbage patch

South Asia

Plastic problem

A ban on recycled plastic in Delhi will have little effect

Ban on plastic bags

Plastic digester for better biogas production

No genie's tale

Plastic waste is threatening ocean biodiversity

Petrol from plastic

An energy efficient technique

Let Delhi breathe

Hospitals and hotels asked to use degradable plastic

Dump wars

Fungi can even chew on plastic when it comes to food  

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  

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

Science & Technology - Bytes

Plastic from weed

Water hyacinth can be used to make biodegradable polymer