India ranks 94 in per capita single-use plastic waste production: Report India Today Web Desk
India s plans to phase out single-use plastic are already paying dividends as the world s second-most populous country ranks 94th in per capita plastic waste production. A report by the Australia-based Minderoo Foundation said India s per capita waste generated from single-use plastic is 4 kg.
The report said Singapore and Australia top the list of the countries in per capita plastic waste generation. Singapore s per capita plastic waste generation stands at 76 kg followed by Australia at 56 kg, the report said.
China is the largest producer of single-use plastic, followed by the US and India, the report said. However, while India generates 5.58 million tonnes (MT) of single-use plastic annually, China produces six times more, at 25.36 MT and the US 17.19 MT.
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The second of the three deep-water gas developments planned jointly, was expected to start production in mid-2021. RIL and BP have been developing R Cluster, Satellite Cluster and MJ in the KG-D6 block– which together are expected to produce around 30 mmscmd (1 billion cubic feet a day) of natural gas by 2023, meeting up to 15 percent of the country’s gas demand, said RIL in its exchange filing today. Despite Covid-19 challenges, the Satellite Cluster field has come onstream two months ahead of schedule, it said. The field is located about 60 km from the existing onshore terminal at Kakinada on the east coast of India in water depths of up to 1850 meters.
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After kicking off the session on a gap-down note amid a record spike of over 3 lakh Covid-19 cases in the country, Indian markets bounced back in afternoon deals, as investors resorted to low-level buying encouraged by firm global cues and drop in US bond yields. The BSE barometer Sensex ended the session at 48,081, up 375 points, mainly led by strength in the banking and financial counters. The index, meanwhile, gyrated 939 points in intra-day trade today as volatility remained high on weekly f&o expiry. Its NSE counterpart Nifty closed the session 110 points higher at 14,406. On technical front, Nifty is expected to range between 14200 and 14500 levels, and it will be crucial for the short-term market scenario to break the zone, said Ashis Biswas, Head of Technical Research at CapitalVia Global Research.