Bags that are less than around 50 micron in thickness are loosely called single use plastic bags because they do not have any recycle value...

The women are collectively making more than 100 thongas a day but the rejection rate is high and about 50 to 60 of them are passing quality checks ...

Innumerable plastic wrappers, thin carry bags and sheets remained spread all over the park...

There has been a lot of improvement regarding waste disposal in the past two decades, though much remains to be done...

Programme a joint initiative of Vinisha, an NGO that works for the environment, and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan...

Blanket ban has targeted those single-use plastic items that are seen to have low utility and carry high littering potential...

The country is struggling to find an alternative to single-use plastics and establish an effective waste management system...

Plastic items choke the feeder canals which are narrow, leading to less water being discharged into our bheris...

Kolkata Traffic Police officer finds move ‘very uncommon, if not unprecedented’...

Green activists worry about lack of recycling and volume of waste after the festival...