New approach required to solve single-use plastics problem in India
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): Plastic waste has been one of the most significant environmental problems challenging humankind. Experts have realised that conventional plastics, which takes several hundred years to degrade are a critical ecological hazard. As per the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, about 85 per cent of plastics turn into unregulated waste reaching oceans and landfills, and only 10 per cent of plastics ever produced globally have ever been recycled. While the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (RRR) is often claimed to be one of the most optimum mantras to ...