🅾️Q) Discuss the significance of including the informal waste and recovery sector (IWRS) in the formulation of the Global Plastics Treaty. How can this inclusion ensure environmental sustainability and social justice? Illustrate your answer with examples from international and Indian contexts.
⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance - click here
⚜️Urbanization and its Problems:Impact of inadequate municipal solid waste management on urban environments- Example- Legacy wastes in landfills
⚠️What this article focuses on?- Social Issues:Role of informal sector workers in urban economies-Socio-economic challenges and vulnerabilities of waste pickers and India's role in global environmental governance and diplomacy
🅾️Technological innovations in waste management and recycling : Bio mining
🅾️Q) Discuss the significance of including the informal waste and recovery sector (IWRS) in the formulation of the Global Plastics Treaty. How can this inclusion ensure environmental sustainability and social justice? Illustrate your answer with examples from international and Indian contexts.
⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance - click here
⚜️Urbanization and its Problems:Impact of inadequate municipal solid waste management on urban environments- Example- Legacy wastes in landfills
⚠️What this article focuses on?- Social Issues:Role of informal sector workers in urban economies-Socio-economic challenges and vulnerabilities of waste pickers and India's role in global environmental governance and diplomacy
🅾️Technological innovations in waste management and recycling : Bio mining
“To the extent it is used I fear it’s often for illicit finance. It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions, and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering,” the former Fed chairwoman said. Yellen’s comments have been cited as a reason for bitcoin’s recent losses. However, Yellen’s assessment of bitcoin as a inefficient medium of exchange is an important point and one that has already been raised in the past by bitcoin bulls. Using a volatile asset in exchange for goods and services makes little sense if the asset can tumble 10% in a day, or surge 80% over the course of a two months as bitcoin has done in 2021, critics argue. To put a finer point on it, over the past 12 months bitcoin has registered 8 corrections, defined as a decline from a recent peak of at least 10% but not more than 20%, and two bear markets, which are defined as falls of 20% or more, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
The seemingly negative pandemic effects and resource/product shortages are encouraging and allowing organizations to innovate and change.The news of cash-rich organizations getting ready for the post-Covid growth economy is a sign of more than capital spending plans. Cash provides a cushion for risk-taking and a tool for growth.
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