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Start-up EcoEx launches plastic credit trading platform
February 24, 2021
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EcoEx, a start-up in the plastic waste management sector, has launched India’s first digital marketplace to facilitate exchange of plastic credit certificates and strengthen the plastic recycling infrastructure, the firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
Plastic producers, importers and brand owners that use plastic for packaging have been made accountable for managing the end waste, as per the Uniform Framework for Extended Producer Responsibility released by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
The revised Extended Producer Responsibility draft guidelines propose to allow these firms to meet compliance targets by buying ‘plastic credits’ from accredited companies that recycle packaging or co-process the plastic packaging waste.
IN NUMBERS: Over 13,500 fresh cases reported, 30% higher than Tuesday India reported 13,742 fresh coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 11,030,176, according to a report in the Scroll. The fresh cases are nearly 30 per cent higher than Tuesday’s count. The country saw 104 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 156,567, according to central health ministry data. The total recoveries have surged to 10,726,702. The national recovery rate is at 97.25 per cent. The active caseload is at 146,907, which makes up 1.33 per cent of the total caseload. As many as 12,165,598 healthcare and frontline workers have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Read more here
Things were going well. Daily infections were down, hospitals were finally coming up for air themselves and experts globally were flummoxed at the deep dive from a 100,000 cases in September to just 9100 cases recorded across India towards the end of January. For a country of 1.4 billion people, the numbers were no less than a miracle.
Theories came out fast and furious many questioned if the country had already reached herd immunity. Other experts wondered if our living conditions made us inherently tough had the lack of hygiene and clean water that caused diseases like malaria, typhoid and dengue made our immune systems sturdy or was our predominantly humid climate a barrier to the virus.
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