Throwing Plastic Bags

According to the official, since wildlife laws protect all creatures at the sanctuary, mistreating them could have legal repercussions.

A sperm whale has been found dead in Indonesia with 115 plastic cups and 25 plastic bags in its stomach, raising concern among environmentalists and throwing the spotlight on the country's rubbish problem.

A 32-year-old woman who gave birth to a girl and threw the baby out of a window in a plastic bag has been jailed for 10 years by a British court, according to media reports today.

The Supreme Court has called India's plastic waste or precisely the plastic bags we tend to use and throw a bigger threat to India then the atom bomb. While that might be a wee exaggeration it does most certainly highlight one of the biggest scourges of modern India's threats to our environment and well being.

Cracking the whip on all those throwing plastic bags in drains, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has fined nearly 150 people and collected Rs 1.32 lakh in a fortnight.Taking  lessons from 26 July deluge, when plastic bags had blocked drains and led to flooding in the city, the civic body has formed two 'plastic ban' squads consistin...

According to the official, since wildlife laws protect all creatures at the sanctuary, mistreating them could have legal repercussions.

A sperm whale has been found dead in Indonesia with 115 plastic cups and 25 plastic bags in its stomach, raising concern among environmentalists and throwing the spotlight on the country's rubbish problem.

A 32-year-old woman who gave birth to a girl and threw the baby out of a window in a plastic bag has been jailed for 10 years by a British court, according to media reports today.

The Supreme Court has called India's plastic waste or precisely the plastic bags we tend to use and throw a bigger threat to India then the atom bomb. While that might be a wee exaggeration it does most certainly highlight one of the biggest scourges of modern India's threats to our environment and well being.

Cracking the whip on all those throwing plastic bags in drains, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has fined nearly 150 people and collected Rs 1.32 lakh in a fortnight.Taking  lessons from 26 July deluge, when plastic bags had blocked drains and led to flooding in the city, the civic body has formed two 'plastic ban' squads consistin...