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ENVIRONMENT - August 2019

Aug 2019

Sep 20, 2019

Industry Players Join Hands To Launch Packaging Waste Management Venture, Aim To Mobilise Rs 1k Cr

To address the growing concern of plastic waste in India, 32 companies including PepsiCo India, Coca-Cola India, Bisleri, Diageo and Reliance Industries have come together to launch a packaging waste management venture and aim to mobilise over Rs 1,000 crore for the purpose.
Developed and incubated by the Packaging Association for Clean Environment (PACE), as part of the venture, the participating companies will mobilise and converge assets, resources and investment upwards of Rs 1,000 crore, which will include the existing infrastructure of the member companies and fresh investments.
The vision of this venture is to ensure that no recyclable packaging material ends up in landfills by 2025.

Sep 18, 2019

2019 Ozone Hole Could Be Smallest In Three Decades

The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2019 could be one of the smallest seen in three decades, say scientists.
Observations of the gas's depletion high in the atmosphere demonstrate that it hasn't opened up in 2019 in the way it normally does.
The EU's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) says it's currently well under half the area usually seen in mid-September.
The hole is also off-centre and far from the pole.

Sep 17, 2019

India to Generate 175 GW Of Clean Energy By 2022

Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan said that the country was on course to generate 175 GW of clean energy by 2022.
The country has set a target of reducing the emission of greenhouse gases between 33 per cent and 35 per cent to combat climate change and global warming. So far, the country has been able to reduce it to 21 per cent.

Sep 16, 2019

Railways To Undertake " Massive Shramdan" Drive From Sep 17

Railways will undertake - Massive Shramdan drive with main focus on collection of plastic waste. This Shramdan is for enhanced cleanliness, through collection of plastic waste from all railway premises and creating awareness for a greater impact against single use plastic.
Railway Board has also sent a letter to all Divisional heads, directing that this massive Sharamdan should be arranged at each and every station and nearby localities.
The Ministry has asked all Divisional Heads to provide plastic bottle crushing machines, at over four thousand stations by the 2^nd October, 2019.

Sep 15, 2019

Water Found On a Potentially Life-Friendly Alien Planet

In a first for astronomers studying worlds beyond our solar system, data from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed water vapor in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet.
Although this exoplanet orbits a star that is smaller than our sun, it falls within what's known as the star's habitable zone, the range of orbital distances where it would be warm enough for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface.
The discovery, announced in two independent studies, comes from years of observations of the exoplanet K2-18b, a super-Earth that's about 111 light-years from our solar system.
Discovered in 2015 by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, K2-18b is very unlike our home world.
It's more than eight times the mass of Earth, which means it's either an icy giant like Neptune or a rocky world with a thick, hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

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