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17 wrz 2024 · The study estimates that India emits around 9.3 million tonnes of plastic pollution annually, a significant portion of the world's total plastic emissions. This places India ahead of Nigeria and Indonesia, which emit 3.5 and 3.4 million tonnes per year, respectively.
7 gru 2023 · India has a population of more than 1.4 billion and generates 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste – every day. This is the equivalent of approximately 26,000 small cars! Currently, a large fraction of plastic waste in India goes to landfill or leaks into the environment.
27 gru 2022 · India likely brought in more than 500,000 tons of plastic waste hidden within paper shipments in the past two years, according to a government environmental body that estimated the level of...
Despite ongoing efforts to curb plastic waste, India’s struggle with uncollected trash, especially plastic, and rampant open burning is driving an environmental crisis of unprecedented...
9 wrz 2024 · India contributes to a fifth of global plastic pollution, a study published in the journal Nature last week found. India burns roughly 5.8 million tonnes (mt) of plastic each year, and releases another 3.5 mt of plastics into the environment (land, air, water) as debris.
6 wrz 2024 · India has emerged as the place where most macroplastic emissions take place, emitting 9.3 million tonnes of plastic into the environment each year – one fifth of the total.
7 gru 2023 · Currently only 8 per cent of plastic waste in India gets recycled with the rest either mismanaged, incinerated, or dumped. A new circular economy roadmap led by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, aims to fix that.
