According to a report and methodological consideration carried out by Quantis International, the fashion industry is solely responsible for one-third of all micro plastic found in the ocean and over 20 percent of the global water waste. The fast fashion industry is largely responsible for creating a vast amount of textile waste.

We literally share our lives with plastic. Most of us still do not realize how bad and dangerous this could be

DODOMA, April 9: Tanzania plans to ban the production, importation, sale and use of all single-use plastic bags by July, to help tackle pollution from non-biodegradable waste.

A Dutch Environmentalist has shown her concern for the environmental pollution in Nepal. During her visit to Nepal, Environmentalist Maanit Jaaulo focused on sharing knowledge on non-bio-degradable wastes like plastics.  She is a consultant for the Netherlands based RVO Company. She stated that factories should be operated without causing environmental pollution.

OSLO, May 11: Europe has sent just over half the plastic waste it used to ship to China to other parts of Asia since Beijing’s environmental crackdown closed the world’s biggest recycling market in January. The knotty problem is what to do with the rest.

KATHMANDU, April 22: This year’s theme for the World Earth Day circles around plastic pollution and ending it.

Actor, entrepreneur and social activist Juhi Chawla on Saturday sought to create awareness about menace of using plastic.

Is there still a point now in having long discussions about the environmental hazards of plastic bags? It has been long established that its non-biodegradability will always make it a pollutant that we will not be easily able to get rid of. Since our school days, we have been taught that plastic bags do not decay.