Single Use Plastic items to be phased out by July 2022 Government notifies the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, prohibiting identified single use plastic items by 2022 Pollution due to single use plastic items […]
http://www.ciiwasteexchange.org/doc/annexure_6.pdf. Accessed 11 May 2021 CPCB annual report on PWM rules (2019) Annual report for the year 2018–19 on implementation of plastic waste management rules. Available at: https://cpcb.nic.in/uploads/plasticwaste/Annual_Report_2018-19_PWM.pdf. ...
In the same year, the US also argued against an amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal that was planned to reduce shipments of hard-to-recycle plastic waste to low-income countries [41,43] In the end, the amendment ...
The Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules or guidelines on EPR for packaging plastic were issued on February 16, 2022. This was aimed to clarify the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders, including producers, brand owners, importers, CPCB, SPCB, recyclers and waste processors. For...
Singapore aims to increase the overall recycling rate to 70% and reduce waste disposal in landfills by 30% by 2030. Similarly, as per the 2021 report by NITI Aayog, the Indian government announced Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules 2021 that recommends proper recycling methods a...
2021). The intent of this report is to assess the implications of plastic waste management and recycling regulations on the recyclates for manufacturing advanced clean-energy harvesting devices. In particular, the focus is on a comparative analysis of the use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (...
In Poland, due to the necessity to implement the requirements of the SUP Directive, on 3 July 2021, the Polish Minister of Climate and Environment published a draft act amending the act on the obligations of entrepreneurs with regard to the management of certain types of waste and the product...