School students sit in a formation to spread awareness about plastic-free India, in Surat.
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Participants flash the victory sign at a women's car rally, organised to support ban on the use of plastic, in Bhopal.
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Mother Dairy employees dismantle a 25-feet effigy of Ravana, made up of waste plastic collected from households of Delhi-NCR, during an awareness campaign to reduce the use of plas...
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Rag pickers sort plastics at a garbage dumping site in Amritsar. The government has aimed to sensitise public against the use of plastic and has decided to ban one-time use plastic...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses during the launch of 'Sankalp Yatra' against plastic on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, in New Delhi.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan during the launch of 'Sankalp Yatra' against plastic on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, in New Delhi...
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Members of International Assembly of Human Rights participate in an awareness campaign 'No Use of Plastic' on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, in Kolkata.
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Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, BJP senior leader Vijay Goel and fashion designer Ritu Beri during the launch of 'Plastic Man', in New Delhi.
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People hold placards during a rally against the use of single-use plastics, in Patna.
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Sulabh volunteers and school children distribute cloth bags to the vendors during a campaign 'Say No To Single-Use Plastic' to curb the plastic waste, at Connaught Place in New Del...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi assists women segregate plastic waste under 'Swachhta Hi Seva' programme, in Mathura.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi assists women segregate plastic waste under 'Swachhta Hi Seva' programme, in Mathura. Asking people to shun single use plastic, PM Modi said the wanton...
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A worker walks over plastic dust spread over an area for recycling purpose in Kolkata. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to shun-single-use plastic and encouraged use o...
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Activists stage a protest demonstration to create awareness among people about threats of plastic pollution, in Kolkata.
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Plastic traders and workers during a protest against the ban on plastics, in Bengaluru.
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Plastic traders and workers during a protest against the ban on plastic bags, in Bengaluru.
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MNS Chief Raj Thackeray addresses a press conference regarding Plastic Bag Ban issue, at his residence in Mumbai.
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People carry cloth bags despite rains at a fish market as Maharashtra government has banned the use of plastic bags, in Mumbai.
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Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) worker seize plastic material at a shop during an inspection following a plastic ban, in Nagpur.
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People carry containers at a fish market as Maharashtra government has banned the use of plastic bags, in Mumbai.
My grandmother, your great grandmother, everyone would have used cloth, which could be destroyed after a single-use. More conversation around this will help rather than pushing plastic, polymers as sanitary pads, the BJP MP said.
Haaziq has been working with different people, organisations and forums to create public awareness for highlighting the hazards of ocean plastic pollution and measures to prevent it.
MPCB had given a deadline until Sunday for creating a buy-back mechanism for collection of plastic used by retailers and multi-layered or tetra packaging, which was followed by the board's instruction to speculate.
Patnaik made the announcement while participating in the "Ama Mukshya Mantri, Ama Katha" (Our Chief Minister, our talk) programme, a video confecencing initiative to connect with the people in every nook and cranny of the state.
About two months after the buzz about a national ban on single-use plastics made headlines, the government has come up with the semblance of a definition for ‘single-use plastic’ and a time-frame for phasing it out.