{"id":90066,"date":"2019-08-05T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:44:15","slug":"recycle-reuse-to-be-mantra-of-resource-efficiency-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/recycle-reuse-to-be-mantra-of-resource-efficiency-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle, reuse to be mantra of resource efficiency policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has proposed a draft National Resource Efficiency Policy 2019.The policy aims to streamline the efficient use of resources with minimum negative impact on environment.<\/li><li>The draft policy suggests setting up a \u2018National Resource Efficiency Authority\u2019(NREA) to (a)develop an action plan with three years time-frame (b)create and maintain database (c)measure progress and (d)build capacities.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Under initial action plan(2019-22),the policy also seeks to constitute an inter-ministerial body named National Resource Efficiency Advisory Board(NREAB) for coordination among different agencies.<\/li><li>The aim of the policy is also to drive the country towards circular economy through efficient use of available material resources based on principle of 6R and \u2018green public procurement\u2019.<\/li><li>The 6R stands for reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign, re-manufacture and refurbish.On the other hand,\u2018green public procurement\u2019 means to procure products with lower environmental footprints such as secondary raw materials and locally sourced materials.<\/li><li>The draft policy also talks about regulations and taxes on virgin materials so that the manufacturers move to use of secondary raw materials by processing scrap.<\/li><li>Further,the policy also pitches for moving towards \u2018zero landfill\u2019 approach in the country.This means imposing \u2018landfill taxes\u2019 and \u2018high tipping fees\u2019 on bulk generators of waste so that they can move towards optimal use of materials and better waste management.<\/li><li>Referring to the automotive sector,the draft notes that more than 8.7 million vehicles had reached \u2018end-of-life vehicle\u2019 (ELV) status in 2015 and it is estimated to reach 21 million by 2025.Hence,it seeks to establish 20 vehicle dismantlers across major urban centres in the country by 2020.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has proposed a draft National Resource Efficiency Policy 2019.The policy aims to streamline the efficient use of resources with minimum negative impact on environment. The draft policy suggests setting up a \u2018National Resource Efficiency Authority\u2019(NREA) to (a)develop an action plan with three years time-frame (b)create and maintain database&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/recycle-reuse-to-be-mantra-of-resource-efficiency-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recycle, reuse to be mantra of resource efficiency policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7401],"class_list":["post-90066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-national-resource-efficiency-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700788552,"cached_date":1704828967},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90066","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=90066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}