Starting August 11, the Shri Kashi Vishwanath temple prohibits plastic items to maintain cleanliness. Temple officials urge devotees to coo...

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has set up a control room to monitor the implementation of the ban on 19 identified single-use...

"A lot of the bans that states have introduced are really simple to enforce. You could start by banning plastic cutlery — simple things lik...

As a step to realise the long term goal of 'carbon neutral Ladakh', the Union Territory administration has ordered a complete ban on the us...

All govt departs and organisations under them to launch countrywide campaign from Sept 11; educational institutions also to be roped in.

To collect 10,000 tons of plastic by Gandhi Jayanti for recycling and disposal by October 2.

PM Modi said that 'mass movement' against single-use plastic will launch on October 2.

In April, a division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla refused to stay the notification after observing that the court cannot igno...

Confusion was prevailing in the public over usage of thermocol and other plastic items after the ban was announced.

The study reflected that while over 85% of the respondents were aware of the plastic usage ban and the harmful effects of plastic on the en...

Kadam claimed 80 per cent of banned plastic items are being smuggled into the state from neighbouring Gujarat and only 20 per cent of them ...

The state had imposed a ban against using carry bags in 2016 but there are several loose ends impeding its successful implementation.

Ahead of World Environment Day on June 5, the environment ministry had recently banned plastics in all protected areas across the country, ...

Not just shampoo sachets, supari and other tobacco products are also being sold in plastic pouches containing laminates that cannot be recy...

This is one way that plastic, on a large scale, can be recycled, and the blanket ban on plastics enforced last March be made more meaningfu...

The proposed blanket ban comes with zero tolerance to even plastic used to cover school books, magazines and invitation cards.

Trying to be environment friendly, Maharashtra government decided to ban use of plastic in in Mantralaya and at official programmes.