World Environment Day 2018: The menace of plastic pollution

'World Environment Day', also known as environmental awareness day, 'Eco Day' or 'Environment Day' is being observed today. The primary aim of the day is to raise public awareness about the environment and specific issues affecting the environment.The observance of Wold Environment Day (WED) began in 1972 after it was...

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Beating plastic pollution

The theme for the World Environment Day, 2018-"Beat Plastic Pollution"- is a call to action for us so that we come together and combat one of the major environmental challenges of the present times. The term 'plastic' has been derived from the Greek words "Plastikos" and "plastos". It is a...

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Improving faecal sludge management

Human excreta persist to be a taboo issue, even when poor sanitation costs the world USD 260 billion annually and 1.5 million child deaths. Over 2.4 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation and a billion people worldwide still practice open defecation. Another estimate indicates that 5-cubic-metres-truck-load of...

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