{"id":202463,"date":"2022-08-29T18:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202463"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:19:39","slug":"union-minister-says-waste-to-wealth-is-emerging-as-a-new-avenue-for-startup-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-says-waste-to-wealth-is-emerging-as-a-new-avenue-for-startup-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister says, &#8216;Waste to Wealth&#8217; is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister says, &#8216;Waste to Wealth&#8217; is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 27th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister has said that \u201cWaste to Wealth\u201d is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Waste Generation in India<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waste generation in urban areas of India will be 0.7\u2009kg\u2009per person per day in 2025, approximately four to six times higher than in 1999.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India currently generates 62 million tons of waste (both recyclable and non\u2013recyclable) every year, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. Solid waste, plastic waste and E-waste are the principal waste materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Initiatives to tackle Waste Generation in India<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has undertaken multiple large-scale national initiatives such as \u2018Swachh Bharat Mission\u2019, \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-water-mission-awards-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Water Mission\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/waste-to-wealth-mission\/#:~:text=The%20Waste%20to%20Wealth%20Mission,and%20extract%20value%20from%20waste.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waste to Wealth Mission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d as a part of its commitment to effective waste &amp; pollution management in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Union Minister\u2019s views on Waste to Wealth?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waste to wealth methodology serves the dual purpose of not only keeping the environment clean but also creating wealth out of elements which otherwise pollute the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is a need to create awareness about several waste products which can generate income without much effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In this regard he referred to steps such as<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Use of cooking oil from the kitchen could be sold off at the rate of around Rs.20 per litre to the industry which had the technology to convert it into alternative fuel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Similarly, Fly Ash produced through the combustion of coal could be utilized for making bricks for construction etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUnion Minister says, &#8216;Waste to Wealth&#8217; is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India\u201d published in PIB on 27th August 2022. What is the News? The Union Minister has said that \u201cWaste to Wealth\u201d is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India. Waste&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-says-waste-to-wealth-is-emerging-as-a-new-avenue-for-startup-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister says, &#8216;Waste to Wealth&#8217; is emerging as a new avenue for StartUp in India<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-202463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704815395},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202463","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=202463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}