The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has released a report titled \u2018Circular Economy in Municipal Solid and Liquid Waste\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: \u200b\u200bThe circular<\/b>\u00a0economy is a model of production and consumption that involves sharing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials\/products as long as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n The report provides a comprehensive, implementable and forward-looking action plan for the management of municipal solid & liquid waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It also aims to promote India\u2019s transition from a linear \u2018take-make-waste\u2019 mindset to a \u2018multi lifecycle circular\u2019 approach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India generates approximately 1.45 lakh tonnes of solid waste daily and 35% of this Is dry waste and the major share of dry waste is plastic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Out of 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste generated daily, only 15,600 tonnes are recycled and the rest goes to landfills and water bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n Treatment of municipal solid, wet, and construction wastes can generate nearly Rs 30,000 crore revenue per annum and create employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n a)<\/strong> Government should reduce GST and other taxes on products that are made out of recycled materials to 5% from 18%, b)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>State pollution control boards and urban development and industry departments to introduce a tax for the dumping of all municipal waste in landfills.<\/span><\/p>\n c)<\/strong> Mandatory use of 25% recycled materials in non-food grade packaging to ensure recycling, d)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Cement kilns must use 25% RDF (non-recyclable combustible dry waste) to replace coal.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Circular Economy in Municipal Solid and Liquid Waste: Recyclable garbage may generate Rs 30,000 crore annually<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Economic Times <\/b>on<\/span> 17th May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has released a report titled \u2018Circular Economy in Municipal Solid and Liquid Waste\u2019. Note: \u200b\u200bThe circular\u00a0economy is a model of production and consumption that involves sharing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials\/products as long as possible. What is the purpose of the report?… Continue reading Circular Economy in Municipal Solid and Liquid Waste: Recyclable garbage may generate Rs 30,000 crore annually<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,9],"tags":[10596],"class_list":["post-185536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700145548},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the purpose of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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What are the recommendations given by the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n