GM Food Crops Regulation Subject – Environment Context – Regulation of GM food subject to life inside it: Activists decry Centre’s strange decision. Concept – The Environment (Protection) Act 1989 Rules for the Manufacture, Use, Import, Export and Storage of Hazardous Micro Organisms / Genetically Engineered Organisms (GMOs) or Cells are clearly applicable […]
More Plastic Waste to be banned Subject – Environment Context – Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021. Concept – In the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly held in 2019, India had piloted a resolution on addressing single-use plastic products pollution, recognizing the urgent need for […]
Plastic waste management amendment rules 2021 notified Subject: Environment Context: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, which prohibits identified single use plastic items which have low utility and high littering potential by 2022. Concept: Pollution due to single use plastic […]