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Kochi, Kerala, 04/08/16. Lakshmi Menon, social entrepreneur and designer.

Penning a new chapter

Shailaja Tripathi
Bagasse containers

Your order-in meal routine is generating trash

Sneah Agarwal
A dead Olive Ridley turtle found washed ashore on the beach in Visakhapatnam.

Plastic waste posing threat to turtles

Sumit Bhattacharjee

There is a strong link between plastic and poverty: Heather Koldewey

S. Ravi

BMC collects 137 tonnes of plastic

Tanvi Deshpande

While govt. concentrates on plastic, its forms still dominate

Staff Reporter

World Environment Day 2018: Green globe

Bhavya Venkatesh
The vertical garden made of plastic bottles.

PET project: vertical garden from trash

Esha Mitra
Rajeshwari Singh (2nd from left) speaks at an event organised by UN India on Monday.

Woman walks from Gujarat to Delhi to beat plastic pollution

Urvashi Sharma
Ragpickers looking for recyclables at a garbage dump in New Delhi on Monday

World Environment Day 2018: Donate old plastic, do your bit for environment

Special Correspondent

The plastic problem, and some solutions

Today, India is hosting the World Environment Day with the theme 'Beat Plastic Pollution'

June 05, 2018 03:55 pm | Updated December 01, 2021 06:05 am IST

The Hindu Net Desk
The Hindu Net Desk
Plastic pollution

Plastic pollution

In connection with this globally observed day, many nations have pledged to ban the use of single-use plastics, from straws to earbuds.

India alone generates about 4354 tonnes of plastic waste every day.

Here are some stories that tell you about the harmful impact of plastic on the environment, and some examples of how we can reduce and reuse plastic.

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