Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has urged citizens to take a collective pledge to eliminate the use of plastic, emphasizing shared responsibility for environmental protection on the International Day of Zero Waste. In her message on Monday, she said practical public-level action is essential to reduce waste, promote recycling and ensure a cleaner and […]
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Veteran actress Resham receives backlash for throwing plastic waste into a river
A recent video that has taken the interweb by storm is that of veteran actress Resham dumping pieces of meat, bread and plastic waste into a river. The actress did this while she was on the way to Charsadda and her actions have caused a flurry of emotions in the general public. This past Sunday, […]
Plastic material export witnesses 42.30pc increase during last 11 months
ISLAMABAD: Plastic material exports during the first eleven months of fiscal year of 2021-22 grew up by 42.30 percent as compared to the exports of the commodity during the corresponding period of last year. During the period from July-May 2021-22, Plastic material worth US $385,643 were exported as compared to the exports of US $ […]
Plastic export surge 29.88% in 9 months
ISLAMABAD: The export of plastic materials has witnessed an increase of 29.88 percent during the first nine months of the fiscal year (2021-22) as compared to the corresponding period of last year. Pakistan exported plastic material worth US $303.225 million during July-March(2021-22) as compared to the export of $233.458 million during July-March (2020-21), showing an […]
Plastic, chemical pollution beyond planet’s safe limit: study
The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the first time. There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment. “The impacts that we’re starting to see today are […]
Global plastics production falls for first time since 2008
Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen, an industry body said Thursday. Output has fallen only twice previously, as a result of the oil crisis in 1973 and during the financial crisis in 2008. Worldwide output slipped […]
You may be eating a credit card’s worth of plastic each week – study
People worldwide could be ingesting five grammes of microscopic plastic particles every week, equivalent in weight to a credit card, researchers said Wednesday. Coming mostly from tap and especially bottled water, nearly invisible bits of polymer were also found in shellfish, beer and salt, scientists and the University of Newcastle in Australia reported. The findings, […]
Airborne plastic particles blanket remote mountains: study
A secluded mountain region thought to be free of plastic pollution is in fact blanketed by airborne microplastics on a scale comparable to a major city such as Paris, alarmed researchers reported Monday. Over a five-month period in 2017-2018, an average of 365 tiny bits of plastic settled every day on each square metre of […]
Littering the streets costs you Rs 10,000 in Chandigarh
On the first day of the challan drive, Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on March 1 issued 45 challans of Rs 10,000 each, for littering. Forty more challans of Rs 5,000 each were also issued for littering plastic in public. Rs 10,000 challans were mostly of eating joints and multinational restaurants. “Most of the eating joint owners […]
WWF sounds alarm after 48lbs of plastic found in dead whale
An 8-meter (26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly, prompting the World Wildlife Foundation to sound an alarm Monday over the dangers of plastic waste in the Mediterranean Sea. The environmental group said the garbage recovered from the sperm whale’s stomach included a corrugated […]