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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2W ago

Five Steps for Effective Waste Management (Featured Article)

There is more to waste management than collecting rubbish and dumping it at landfill. Although this is a vital step in the process, there is more to it than that! This article will address the steps involved in the cycle of waste management and will hopefully give a greater understanding to the topi
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2M ago

If you gonna be a square You ain’t a gonna go nowhere

A girl went back to NapoliBecause she missed the sceneryThe native dances and the charming songsBut wait a minute, something’s wrongHey, mambo! Mambo italiano!Hey, mambo! Mambo italianoGo, go, go you mixed up sicialianoAll you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with aHey mambo, don’t wanna taran
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 1Y ago

Electronic Waste

The way Capitalism as an economic system has taken over ever since 17th century is phenomenal......Short lived and frequently changing tastes and preferences ain't all rubbish......We live in the world where highly enthusiastic and intensive research and developments are giving birth to new technolo
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 1Y ago

Back from the hiatus…

It now seems to be holding true with many bloggers now. The blogging exercise too follows a pattern of crests and troughs....I shall soon update on the developments of the plastic menace and mitigation efforts pursued across the globe.
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2Y ago

The Great Pacific Garbage

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas.[1] The patch is characterized by
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2Y ago

Evolution de GROP

Hereafter, the 'plastics' in the blog title shall imply that the menace that are attached to plastics and therefore "Get Rid Of Plastics" would mean getting rid of the practices that distort our ecology and not getting rid of plastics per se.
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2Y ago

Are we turning into a garbage nation?

When I came up with the title of this post, I thought it would be too bold and too strong a statement to make as far as India is concerned. And I gave in some time to think if it is really so, are we not converting our lands into dumping grounds and are we not incessantly adding to the volumes of th
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2Y ago

Plastic or No Plastic…that is the question!

We need to see a day when no plastic bag finds a place in the garbage dump, no plastic bag is thrown into any size water body and no plastic bag clogs the drains.
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Get Rid Of Plastics · 2Y ago

Reply from the Director, Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE)

imposing an umbrella ban on plastics, or imposing a hefty tax, or making sure serious upgradation of waste management at the macro level are options to consider.
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