A workshop on understanding the impacts of plastics across its ‘lifecycle’ and Zero Waste AlternativesContext For years, waste management discussions have focused on improving segregation, increasing recycling rates and expanding disposal infrastructure. However, there...
A Workshop on understanding plastics and it’s implications. 🗓️Date: 17 March 2026 📍Venue: Department of Environmental Science, Dhanamanjuri University, Manipur Register here: https://forms.gle/18jwcS3P2tw4unuEA Introduction and Rationale Plastics have become a ubiquitous material in...
Over 100 countries rejected the draft text for the global plastics treaty, labeling it “unambitious” and “inadequate”. This rejection was led by a coalition of “high ambition countries” including many African and Pacific nations,...
By narrowing the conversation to waste management, the industry avoids addressing the root cause of plastic pollution: overproduction. As the world faces the growing crisis of plastic overconsumption and waste, extended producer responsibility (EPR)...
While governments and corporations focus on ‘techno-fixes’ and individual-centric sustainability practices
आधुनिक विकास के नाम पर जिन ‘भस्मासुरों’ को बनाया, बढ़ाया जा रहा है, प्लास्टिक उनमें से एक है। कुल-जमा सौ-सवा सौ साल पहले ईजाद किया गया यह कारनामा आज प्रकृति-पर्यावरण और इंसानों के अस्तित्व...
Single-use plastic ban vilified street vendors and small players, but conveniently missed the real villains: the producers and users of plastic – petrochemicals companies, plastic producers, and FMCG companies – who choose to make...
Press Note 12 September 2024, Delhi: Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) launched an exclusive microsite dedicated to its ‘Plastics Fuel Infertility’ campaign (PFIC), on 28th August 2024 through an online event. The Campaign aims...
One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a Feb 2022 Union govt rule for all plastic waste generators to recycle their waste under...
Fighting plastic pollution is a herculean task in itself. However, on top of fighting to save the planet and the people from the impacts of the entire plastic life-cycle, we are confronted with yet...
The Centre for Financial Accountability recently concluded its workshop ‘Plastics: A Toxic Love Story’, organised in collaboration with the Sambhaavnaa Institute between May 17 and 21, 2024 at the Institute’s Kandbari campus.
The Gulf of Kutch located in western Gujarat covers an area of 7,350 km2, is approximately 170 km long, and up to 75 km wide at its mouth.
An Overview of the Adverse Health Impacts of Chemicals Associated with Petrochemical Industries and Across the Life Span of Plastics.
Fossil fuel and chemical industries’ interests are influencing India’s positions in various multilateral environmental and trade agreements related to climate, plastics, and chemicals.
According to the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, the concentration of particulate matter at the Dhapa site is more than four times higher than it should be.
