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Unsustainable Management of Plastic Wastes in India: A Threat to Global Warming and Climate Change

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Amit Vishwakarma

Summary

India's rapid urbanization and smart city development is generating unsustainable volumes of solid waste, with plastic pollution posing mounting threats to ecosystems and contributing to climate change. Without major shifts in waste management policy and practice, the environmental costs of development will continue to escalate.

First rural to urbanization and now urbanization to smart cities, sign of development also raises some issue of unsustainable approaches of solid wastes and its impact on our ecosystem. The unsustainable solid waste management approaches have adverse impacts on...

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