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U.N. plans to drastically expand plastic waste management in India

·         The UN Development Programme aims to virtually triple its plastic waste management to one hundred cities in India by 2024, to combat the damaging effects of plastic pollution.

·         The UNDP programme, that began in 2018, has to date collected 83,000 metric tonne of plastic waste.

·         India generates concerning 3.4 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, consistent with official estimates. The UNDP is functioning with federal think tank, NITI Aayog and have conjointly developed a ‘handbook’ model for native municipalities further because the non-public sector.

·         Plastic pollution is about to triple by 2040, the U.N. environment Programme (UNEP) has expected, adding 23-37 million metric heaps of waste into the world’s oceans annually.

·         India, conjointly the world’s third-biggest electrode of greenhouse gases after China and also the US, has set 2070 as a target to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, a lot of later than those set by others and twenty years after the U.N.’s world recommendation.

 

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