Environment
U.N.
plans to drastically expand plastic waste management in India
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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.
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The UNDP programme, that began in 2018,
has to date collected 83,000 metric tonne of plastic waste.
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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.
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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.
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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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