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Category: Plastic Pollution
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Animals & Wildlife Highlights Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution cause of new disease in birds
Plastic has become more of a bane than boon over the decades. It has been one of the major contributors when it comes to choking the planet. Now it has also become a major concern for the avian species as according to a new research it was found wild birds have been consuming an inordinate […]
By Bhadra Mahapatra
16 Mar 2023
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Highlights Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
Single-use plastic still a menace despite zero-tolerance action
Single-use plastic production has steeped despite nations taking a pledge to fight plastic pollution. According to a recent study published by Plastic Waste Makers, an additional 6 million metric tonnes (MMT) of single-use plastics were produced in 2021 as compared to 2019. And virgin fossil-fuel polymers contributed 15 times more to this growth than recycled […]
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By LMB Staff
07 Feb 2023
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#WeForNature Agriculture Climate Change
Kolis of Mumbai and the struggle for survival
Koli fishing communities have been living and working along the coastal waters of Mumbai in Maharashtra in India, for over 500 years. Today, climate change has dealt a severe blow to their livelihood. For them, no fish means no food on the plate. “There’s only dirty sewage water and garbage, there’s no fish. This year […]
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By LMB Staff
19 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Clean Energy
Switching lifestyle for a better future
India’s theme at COP27 this year is LiFE – Lifestyle for Environment, an initiative that’s encouraging individual action against mindless consumption. Mission LiFE is a global plan of action launched, aimed at saving the planet. Replacing the ‘use-and-dispose’ economy with a circular economy, four youth champions from India are rewriting sustainability at COP27. “What change can one […]
By Prachi Shevgaonkar
14 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
Eliminating plastic waste brick by brick
Concerned by the increasing plastic waste issues in Indonesia, two women are taking on the environmental menace by converting rejected plastics into paving bricks! Their company, Rebricks has been making these paving bricks out of multi-layered plastic, which is used to package everything from instant coffee to liquid soap. They spent over one and a […]
By Ovy Sabrina
14 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future COP27
Make bins popular, one trash at a time
While kids her age were running around throwing toffee wrappers on streets, this eight-year-old was picking trash and dumping it in a bin. Meet Misimi Isimi, a teenager from Lagos in Nigeria, who has been creating awareness of waste collection the past seven years. At 15, she’s not just a busy activist but is also […]
By Misimi Isimi
11 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Marine Pollution Plastic & Waste
Bali’s river warrior and the fight against plastic pollution
When Sam Bencheghib was all of 20, and a university student, he along with his brother Gary Bencheghib went out kayaking. But it was no ordinary kayak. They had built it using plastic bottles, and the river they paddled through was one of Indonesia’s most polluted rivers – Citarum River.  “We decided to kayak down […]
By Smitha Verma
01 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
Eco-friendly sanitation solutions using discarded plastics
It is a common sight to see people urinating in public places across India and the situation is aggravated by the lack of public sanitation facilities. Despite various initiatives by the government, the existing sanitation facilities don’t seem to meet the mark.  To tackle the problem of public urinals, Ashwani Aggarwal, founder of the start-up […]
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By Payel Sen
26 Oct 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
The journey of an accidental environmentalist
Every year India witnesses several million tonnes of plastic waste ending up in landfills. And the figures are only ever increasing. To tackle this grave crisis and make a difference, Pune-based environmentalist Dr. Medha Tarpatikar developed a solution that converts waste plastic into usable fuel. “We are accidental environmentalists. In 2009, we went to one […]
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By Payel Sen
25 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Plastic & Waste
This man is on a mission to heal the Himalayas
“Everybody who is coming to the mountains needs to understand that they have their duty towards the Himalayas, towards local communities, towards this beautiful ecology,” says Pradeep Sangwan, with the kind of conviction in his voice that echoes through the Himalayas. And he leads by example. An avid mountaineer and founder of Healing Himalayas Foundation, […]
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By LMB Staff
08 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
Young scuba diver from India leads by example in waste collection
When Thaaragai Aarathana was just about five years old she had started picking up litter from roads. It hurt her that people were callous and cared little about the environment. At 8, this young scuba diver from Chennai, a southern state in India, has made it her mission to create awareness about marine pollution. She […]
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By LMB Staff
03 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Plastic Pollution
Indonesia conducting school level education drive on ending plastic pollution
The Indonesian government is conducting educational drives in schools across the country to make children aware about plastic pollution and encourage the three R’s – Reduce. Reuse, Recycle. The Education and Culture Ministry, in collaboration with the Environment and Forestry Ministry supports the educational drive. With more than 250,000 schools taking part, the drive has […]
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By LMB Staff
01 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Campaign Events
On World Environment Day, chefs advocate sustainable practices to curb plastic
On World Environment Day, a panel discussion, by LetMeBreathe and UN Environment Programme: Chef’s Manifesto, was held around ‘Chef’s Roundtable: Combating Plastic Pollution in the Food Industry’.  The five-membered panel moderated by food columnist, author and food historian Anoothi Vishal drew out the best in the industry to discuss ways to combat the plastic menace, […]
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By Payel Sen
10 Jun 2022
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Impact Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
The habit changer bags
Would we like to swap single-use plastic bags with cloth bags? We certainly do. We however often forget to carry cloth bags before heading out to shop?  What happens next? We are back with more single-use plastic bags.  A Delhi-based NGO ‘Why Waste Wednesdays’ created a method for people to borrow cloth bags from the […]
By Nikita Bishnoi
17 May 2022
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Air Pollution Marine Pollution Plastic Pollution
ButtRush: Turning cigarette butts into productive products
One of the most littered items in India is cigarette butts which are dumped in large numbers, each with more than 7,000 chemicals, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). These could be commonly found in parks, streets, roads and other similar places. It is projected that 4.5 million tonnes of cigarette wastes contaminate the […]
By Garvit Bhirani
20 Mar 2022
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Air Pollution Plastic Pollution Pollution Stories
Meri Swacchta ki Diary: How we cleaned up our neighbourhood
Do you want to clean up your locality but didn’t know how? Here’s a quick mantra for you by none other than our #HawaKeRakshak – Guddi Gupta, Aahana and gang. Simply block the pollution at its source and pick up the litter in your neighbourhood. To bring behavioural change – we need to create more […]
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By LMB Staff
21 Feb 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
United Nations Environment Programme is asking people to choose #BetterThanPlastic with this new AR Game
Every year, about 1.15 and 2.41 million tonnes of plastic waste enters the ocean from rivers and  Asian rivers are responsible for 86% of the total global input. All these rivers have a few key things in common: all of them run through areas where a lot of people live — hundreds of millions of […]
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By LMB Staff
04 Feb 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Uncategorized
Ganga Mashal Yatra: A flame to connect people with the Ganges and the need to beat plastic pollution
Journeying across the Gangetic belt UNEP’s CounterMEASURE project and National Mission for Clean Ganga in India collaborate with local development partners to celebrate India’s rivers and highlight solutions for plastic pollution in a series of offline events. Let’s choose #BetterThanPlastic #PlasticSeBehtar. Scroll through this photo story to see the highlights.
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By LMB Staff
03 Jan 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
UNEP launches campaign in India urging people to choose #PlasticSeBehtar
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched its India campaign on Monday with a call to choose #PlasticSeBehtar.   To create awareness about the impact of plastic pollution and importance of making choices that are better than plastic [plastic se behtar] in India, UNEP’s CounterMEASURE project in collaboration with LetMeBreathe has launched a campaign focusing on […]
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By LMB Staff
22 Dec 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
It’s time to stop using that plastic cutlery
Plastic has become so abundant in our environment that it is now being detected in our air, drinking water, and even in unborn fetuses. Plastic is non Biodegradable and its consumption by our wildlife is deteriorating is killing them. Recently a cow was operated and 70 kg of plastic was removed. The streams in which […]
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By Aanchal Sharma
29 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
Is recycling a major part of the solution?
I am sure almost all of us have heard the 5 R’s of the waste management system that is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair and Rot if not 5 then these 3 R’s for sure (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). If all of these used together a lot of waste management issues can be curbed but can we […]
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By Srishti Khurana
28 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Video
Eliminating plastic waste brick by brick
Concerned by the increasing plastic waste issues in Indonesia, two women are taking on the environmental menace by converting rejected plastics into paving bricks! Their company, Rebricks has been making these paving bricks out of multi-layered plastic, which is used to package everything from instant coffee to liquid soap. They spent over one and a […]
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By LMB Staff
10 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Do you cut off the corners of your plastic packets too?
We’ve all heard that plastic is hazardous for the environment and the different measures we should take to reduce it’s usage as well as several innovative ways to recycle it.  Although these measures are being taken into action , it’s high time that we finely comb through our everyday lives and notice the ways in […]
By Eshita Gupta
03 Jul 2021
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Climate Change Plastic Pollution sustainability
Inclusion from plate to planet
Meet Kristy Drutman, an American environmental media host, and activist and she is on a mission to change the image of what it means to be an environmentalist in the 21st century. How is she doing that? She interviews environmental leaders and advocates about diversity and inclusion through her podcasts, videos and blogs. She says, […]
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By LMB Staff
01 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
Easy hacks to live a life with fewer plastics
Plastic is an integral part of our lives right now. Every item in our lives seems to be coming from plastics. From packaging to dustbins, from food items to all kinds of other necessary items, we rely on plastics faithfully. The impact that it makes on our environment is very well known to all of […]
By Shubhrika Dogra
01 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
Five Amazingly Simple Tips To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
We live in a time when everyone is concerned about the future of the planet. There’s no denying that the planet is changing dramatically. The climate is almost always unpredictable. Unexpected rain showers, snowfalls, storms and droughts happen regularly. Everyone’s genuinely worried if the planet is really going to be destroyed soon. But there are […]
By Miteeksha
14 Jun 2021
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Health Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Why India Needs to Tackle Its Menstrual Waste
Plastic waste needs no introduction. We all know about plastic and how bad it is for the planet. The fact that “The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch” is among the top five garbage patches in the world shatters my heart.  Plastic pollution is currently one of the biggest environmental concerns. Plastic has toxic pollutants that damage […]
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By Sakshi Sinha
08 Jun 2021
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Marine Pollution Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Keeping plastics out of our oceans is more important than ever
By 2050, the amount of plastic will outweigh the fish in the oceans, predicts a report. What can you do about ocean plastic pollution?
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By Ankita
08 Jun 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
From cutlery to home cleaners, time to make those small eco-friendly changes at your home
Beco provides home, kitchen and personal care products made from bamboo and cornstarch. They are completely plastic-free from manufacturing to packaging. All the products are biodegradable and compostable in nature.
By Letsbeco
27 May 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
How COVID waste is affecting the planet
With the second wave of COVID-19 creating havoc in India, India has an unlikely menace at hand – rising of Bio-medical wastes. Did you know nearly 146 tonnes of bio-medical waste (Source: The Hindu) is generated per day in the country? Although, India did come up with guidelines for handling and disposal of COVID-19 that […]
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By LMB Staff
25 May 2021