The disposal of sanitary pads in India is causing an environmental crisis due to their plastic content and lack of proper waste management....

“We believe that the share of plastics used for these banned SUPs (single-use plastic) is not large (less than 2-3%) and our interactions w...

The ban on single-use plastics, which was announced last year, has come into effect from Friday.

Earbuds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic flags, candy sticks, ice-cream sticks, polystyrene (thermocol) for decora...

CPCB has earlier told the NGT that e-commerce giants need to fulfil their extended producer responsibility under the Plastic Waste Manageme...

The company has replaced bubble wrap and plastic pillows with paper dunnage and biodegradable paper tape.

The Indian unit of Amazon.com Inc has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfillment centers in the country, in line...

Lemon Tree Hotels has paper straws and cups, cork coasters and pencils rather than plastic pens across guest area of the hotel.

A total of 11,000 kg garbage and four dead bodies were removed from the Mount Everest during a two-month long cleanliness drive conducted b...

On March 23, the Maharashtra government had issued a notification, imposing a ban on the manufacturing, use, sale, distribution and storage...

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Biodegradable sanitary napkins and a 'beeswax cloth wrap' to replace silver foil were the two winning novel utili...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last year given a call to save cows from plastic, his message brought into focus the hazards of this ...

McDonald's has also refreshed its delivery application, and says about 50 per cent of sales comes from online ordering, through its app and...

Manufacturers of sanitary pads/napkins and diapers in India will have to provide a pouch or wrapper for disposal along with the packets of ...

Scientists have successfully converted paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible and water repelle...

"Scientists are forging new territory in the field of soft robotics. One of the latest advances is a flexible, microscopic hand-like grippe...

Two unique ideas from India - one a non-surgical and completely reversible alternative to tubectomy and another the development of a biodeg...