Use of Plastic for Road Construction in India
As of 2017, nearly 8,300 million tonnes of virgin plastics have been produced globally. Of this, only around 9% is […]
Plastic Waste Management
India Plastic Challenge – Hackathon 2021
On the occasion World Oceans Day (June 8), Union Environment Minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar launched an awareness campaign on Single
MoEFCC releases draft regulations to ban Single Use Plastic from 2022
On 11th March 2021, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) released the draft Plastic Waste Management
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20 Companies Produce 55% of World’s Plastic Waste, Report Reveals
Globally, only Twenty companies are responsible for producing plastic polymer that accounts for more than half of all the single-use
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Shell starts using plastic waste to produce industrial chemicals
Anglo Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has recently announced that it has successfully made high-end chemicals using a liquid
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IIP sets up plant to convert plastic waste into diesel
Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on August 28, 2019, inaugurated a demonstration plant for converting plastic waste to
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Indian Oil uses single-use plastic waste to build road
Indian Oil has taken a step to dispose of single-use plastic. The research and development wing of Indian Oil has
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Technology of making Plastic Roads
The serious use of plastic for roads construction in India started in 2015 when Union government issued guidelines on plastic
R. Vasudevan – The Plastic Man of India
Since 2001, Rajagopalan Vasudevan, Professor of Chemistry at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and his team at the Centre for