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Prashin makes an important point when he says that being organic is not synonymous with being eco-friendly.”Awareness through activitiesApart from infusing their wedding with eco-friendly options, couples have also tried to inform guests about nature-friendly habits by organising fun activities during the wedding festivities.There’s a need, there’s a wayWhile eco-friendly weddings are not yet the norm, they are definitely the need of the hour.”

The couple also held a pot-making event to encourage guests to use natural items instead of plastic. Our centerpiece is now used as a flower vase.”Eco-friendly invite (Courtesy: Rubina’s Instagram)Apart from invites, couples are also opting for eco-friendly materials when it comes to decorations.Prashin and Deepa, on the other hand, stuck posters to create awareness about food wastage. “Abhinav strongly believes that diamonds are blood diamonds. Guests were invited to plant seed bombs in an area we had cleared. Rubina says, “We decided to not give invites that people would throw away, contributing to garbage.

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”Blue Bottle is starting small with plans to stop using paper cups at two of its San Francisco area branches in 2020, as part of a pledge to go “zero waste” by the end of next year.” end-of Tags: san francisco, blue bottle, eco-friendly. “We’re a small coffee shop. People just have to get into the mindset.Starting in January, cafes and restaurants in Berkeley will charge 25 cents for disposable cups, and San Francisco is considering similar legislation.

On a bigger scale, the Blue Bottle coffeehouse chain, which goes through about 15,000 to-go cups a month at its 70 US locations, says it wants to “show our guests and the world that we can eliminate disposable cups. “I paid almost USD7 for this coffee,” Michaels said, sipping a cafe mocha. But at least “our cups are no longer winding up in the lake. Water is now sold in glass bottles and aluminium cans, and travellers are encouraged to bring their own empty bottles to fill up for free.Many coffee drinkers in the San Francisco area are taking Blue Bottle’s announcement in stride. They also have plastic linings that prevent leakage but make them hard to recycle, Croke said. “Of course it’s a good idea,” said freelance writer Tracy Schroth, at a Blue Bottle cafe in Oakland.“We now offer a glass jar that comes in a 12 ounce (350 millilitres) or 16 ounces (470 millilitres) size,” Korde said. He was inspired to make the change after his 9-year-old daughter’s school did a cleanup project at Lake Merritt, across from his cafe, and found their disposable cups in the water. Customers put down a 50 cent deposit and can return it for a refund or keep it and get 25 cents off future drinks. Vessel, the Colorado start-up that provides the cups, has a similar program running in Boulder.

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The focus needs to be on making the way we live more sustainable by questioning our overly consumerist lifestyles that are at the root of major challenges such as climate change, rather than a narrower focus on sustainable consumer choices, such as buying our takeaway coffee in a reusable cup. It could lead to major disruptions of our ways of life, by making many areas uninhabitable due increased temperatures and rising sea levels. Consumers drive markets and consumer choices will therefore create change in the industry.

These changes could start to happen within the current century. Partly fuelled by the success of the BBC’s ‘Blue Planet II’ series, people are more aware than ever before about the dangers to wildlife caused by plastic pollution, as well as the impact it can have on human health, with industries promising money to tackle the issue.There is a narrow window of opportunity to address the critical challenge of, in particular, climate change.Three boundaries were found to have exceeded: biodiversity loss, nitrogen flows and climate change.But by making these small changes, plastic still appears to be an issue we can address. Now is not the time to be distracted by the convenient truth of plastic pollution, as the relatively minor threats this poses are eclipsed by the global systemic threats of climate change.

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Udham Singh Nagar (Uttarakhand): Yet another case of plastic rice in Uttarakhand has been witnessed.The food department has said that an investigation would be done based on the reports of the examination.

The people who went to their house noted that the ball made of plastic rice was bouncing like a rubber ball."A team has been constituted and along with officials of food security department and municipal corporation we will conduct raid.

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The programme analysed both primary microplastics, such as micro-beads used in cosmetics, and secondary microplastics - from larger plastic items that have broken down in the environment or fibres from clothing. We&SHRINFLEX-BP High Strength PE Shrinkage Suppliers39;re getting more and more aware of the problems this is causing in our oceans, but we are now only starting to look at where these plastics are coming from, and how they're accumulating in our river systems. The team produced a toolkit, with detailed instructions for sampling water and river sediments at locations where stream flow is known or measured and developed methods of automating and thus, objectifying the identification and analysis of microplastics.First results of the project will be presented at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), held in Vienna, Austria, from 7-12 April 2019.  

A key part of the project was to establish a standard method for the sampling and analysis of microplastics which can be used to provide an assessment of the plastic pollution of our river networks. This shows that, even in relatively well-regulated countries like the UK and France, there are a variety of different sources contributing to a high concentration of microplastics in river systems.The results of this initial survey showed a much wider variety of plastic types in the samples than had been anticipated.According to a recent study, focusing on rivers and river mouths can yield vital clues about how we might manage this ongoing plastic pollution crisis. 

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