The amount of single-use plastic on a passenger airline is enough to contribute significantly to global pollution. Portuguese airline Hi Fly decided to bring about a change by introducing single-use plastic free flight.
The flight took off on Wednesday from Lisbon to Natale, Brazil, without a single piece of single-use plastic on board. There were no plastic cups, plastic silverware, plastic cocktail stirrer, and plastic food containers.
This was only a test run for the company hoping to completely ban single-use plastic from all its flights in 2019.
Other airlines such as Air New Zealand and Alaska Airlines are also following similar approaches to reduce their plastic usage onboard.
Dec 17, 2018
Global Response to Climate Change
As many as 195 countries adopted a set of guidelines, 'the Paris Rulebook', for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement to strengthen the global response to climate change.
The rulebook was adopted after two weeks of negotiations to resolve major differences between developed, developing and a coalition of least developed countries at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Dec 11, 2018
Surviving Great Barrier Reef Corals
Scientists have observed that the Great Barrier Reef corals that survived bleaching in 2016 were more resistant to a second marine heat wave the following year.
A study outlines how a process called "ecological memory" emerged in the northernmost reefs during back-to-back heat waves in 2016 and 2017.
Dec 04, 2018
Motor Vehicles Act Amended
In a bid to promote bio-fuel run vehicles, the government issued a notification amending the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 to include dual-fuel vehicles for agricultural tractors and construction equipment vehicles.
Agriculture tractors, power tillers, construction equipment vehicles and combine harvesters can now be converted to run on bio-fuels.
According to the notification, dual-fuel with primary fuel as diesel and secondary fuel as CNG, Bio-CNG and LNG has been added in section 115 A of the Act.
According to the section, every agricultural tractor and construction equipment vehicle manufactured shall be maintained and used by its owner in such condition that visible and gaseous pollutants emitted by them comply with the standards prescribed in this rule.
Dec 03, 2018
Delhi's New Draft Policy on E-Vehicles
The Delhi government has put its new draft policy on electric vehicles which sets an ambitious target of electrifying 25% of all new vehicles registered by 2023 in public domain for suggestions. Electric vehicles can help because they have zero tailpipe emissions and can reduce the dangerous nitrogen-oxide and particulate matter in the air. They also offer quieter and smoother rides. The new draft policy's focus on electrifying two-wheelers, besides auto rickshaws, cabs, goods carriers and public buses, could address a big problem.
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