{"id":28943,"date":"2018-10-24T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28943"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:21:53","slug":"indias-per-capita-plastic-use-among-lowest-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-per-capita-plastic-use-among-lowest-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s per capita plastic use among lowest: Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India\u2019s per capita plastic use among lowest: Modi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>On the eve of World Environment Day, Prime Minister said that India is among the lowest per capita consumption of plastic in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>India has observed<strong> 43th edition<\/strong> of World Environment Day 2018 on June 5 in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Theme for World Environment Day 2018 is <strong>\u201cBeat plastic pollution\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clean Seas programme<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Sweden-led initiative to reduce littering of marine ecosystems.<\/li>\n<li>India is committed to reducee the use of plastic and would join the Clean Seas programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Effects of Plastic pollutions:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It has deadly impact on marine ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Pollution has led to the declining in fish populations<\/li>\n<li>Warming of oceans<\/li>\n<li>Vanishing of habitats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Status of plastic pollution in India:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Central Pollution Control Board, India generates about 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day of which about 40% remains uncollected.<\/li>\n<li>About 70% of the plastic packaging products become \u201cwaste\u201d in a short duration of time.<\/li>\n<li>The disposable plastic such as bottles, cups, wrapping paper and bags account for over half the plastic produced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Government measure:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The Environment Ministry has notified plastic waste management rules in 2016 which sought to control the manufacture of the particular kind of plastics.<\/li>\n<li>Government has introduced the provision for bans the use of plastic bags less than 50 microns thick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s per capita plastic use among lowest: Modi News: On the eve of World Environment Day, Prime Minister said that India is among the lowest per capita consumption of plastic in the world. Important Facts: India has observed 43th edition of World Environment Day 2018 on June 5 in New Delhi. Theme for World Environment&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-per-capita-plastic-use-among-lowest-modi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s per capita plastic use among lowest: Modi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888675},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28943","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}