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Beating plastic pollution The focus must be on Waste management and Recycling

We celebrated ‘World Environment Day’ ( June 5) with a critical theme: beat plastic pollution.

Since India was the global host of this year’s event, and also one of the victims of plastic pollution, we should view this danger seriously.

The theme urges governments, industries, communities and individuals to come together and explore sustainable alternatives.

It also urges this target group to reduce production and excessive use of single-use plastics,which are polluting our environment and threatening human health

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Continue Plastic was invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland.

Further, many chemists, including Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger (father of polymerchemistry) and Herman Mark (father of polymer physics), have contributed to the materialsscience of plastics.

Due to their

Low cost,Ease of manufacture,Versatility(चंचलता),Non-corrosiveness(गैर संक्षारक) &Imperviousness(अभेद्य) to water,plastics are used for multiple purposes at different scales


Continue Plastic has become an indispensable(अनिवायय) material in modern society.

Worldwide, one million plastic bags and one million plastic bottles are used every minute.

50% of our plastic use is single use (disposable)

Only 9% was recycled, 12% incinerated(destroy ), and 79% accumulated in landfills or theenvironment

In India, which accounts for almost 18% of the world population in 2.4% of the globalland area, the accumulation of plastic waste is huge

Each year, 13 million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans- A study revealed that 20rivers (mostly from Asia) carry two-thirds of plastic waste to the ocean


Continue The economic impact of plastic pollution on marine ecosystems through fisheries and tourism

losses and beach cleaning-up costs is estimated to be around $13 billion per year.

Drinking water samples analysed from 14 countries, including India, revealed that 83% have micro-plastics concentrations

According to a United Nations Environment Programme report, the overall annual naturalcapital cost of plastic use in the consumer goods sector is $75 billion

What should we do?- In reality-Cannot eliminate plastic use from our day-to-day activities.

However, we should not allow plastic to reach the soil or water.

Restrict plastic production and encourage recycling through appropriate policies.


Continue Eco-friendly substitutes (cloth/paper/jute bags, leaves/areca leaf plates, paper straws)

should be developed.

For this, scientific and financial support (soft loans and subsidies) is required.

The ‘Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016’ need to be strictly followed

Charges for plastic bag use and deposit-refund for plastic bottles may be effective options.

The Swachh Bharat Mission should emerge as a platform for plastic waste management.

We cannot transform our world into a ‘plastic planet’.

What is needed is collective public effort to stop plastic pollution and safeguard our ecosystem/biodiversity.


The seeds of sustainability How Zero Budget Natural Farming could be the model for the future

In early June, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu announced that the State would fully embrace Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), a chemical-free methodthat would cover all farmers by 2024.- AP has become 1st State to implement a ZBNF policy.

Earlier in the year, he had revealed these plans at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Highlights the way to improve Welfare of farmers,Reduce the cost of farm inputs,Cut toxins in food, andImprove soilsCopyright @ Study-IQ education Be Happy, Share & Help Each Other!!!

Continue ZBNF plots in (kharif ) 2017 pilot phase were found on average 11% higher for cotton than

in non-ZBNF plots

Require locally available materials: seeds treated with cow dung and urine; soil rejuvenated with cow dung, cow urine and other local materials

Input costs are near zero as no fertilizers and pesticides are used Profits in most areas under ZBNF were from higher yield and lower inputs

In early 2016, Sikkim was declared India’s first fully organic State

Establishing a system that shows promise in improving them while supporting people sustainably is surely one worth pursuing.


Transmission troubles RBI continues to remain unable to influence the effective lending rates in the economy.

In February, in its latest statement of intent to resolve poor monetary transmission, the RBI said it would instruct banks to switch base rate customers to the marginal cost of funds-basedlending rate (MCLR) system from April 1, 2018.

In April 2016, it had introduced the MCLR regime, scrapping the base rate regime, in placesince 2010.

Since MCLR is more sensitive to policy rate signals, it has been decided to harmonise the methodology of determining benchmark rates by linking the BaseRate to the MCLR,” it had said.

This was supposed to push banks to lower lending rates


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Vohra takes charge in J&K, reviews security situation Issues proclamation to impose Governor’s rule


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis CEA resigns, cites personal reasons Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian said on Wednesday that he was resigning

, as he wished to return to the U.S. for personal reasons.


Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis U.S. quits UN human rights body Blamed the UNHRC for bias against Israel and refusing to eject members who are

violators of human rights.

China offers to boost ties between India and Pakistan

Dineshwar Sharma will continue his mission

Rising oil prices to hit private consumption, says Urjit Patel

Shillong bags Smart City tag

India, South Korea to align policies for Southeast Asia


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