🔆 Plastic Pollution: Challenges & Sectoral Contribution

📍 Global Context
✅ The world produces 400+ million tons of plastic annually.

📍 Key Challenges of Plastic Pollution
✅ Threat to Ecosystem: Harms marine and terrestrial biodiversity.
✅ Threat to Humans: Enters food chain, exposes humans to toxins.
✅ Threat to Climate: Emits GHGs during production, causes resource depletion.
✅ Economic Inequality: Affects livelihoods of fishers, farmers and vulnerable groups.
✅ Climate Injustice: Poorer countries bear a disproportionate waste burden.

📍 Sector-wise Contribution to Plastic Pollution (NCERT Data)
✅ Packaging – 36% (highest contributor)
✅ Building & Construction – 16%
✅ Textiles – 14%
✅ Consumer & Institutional Products – 10%
✅ Transportation – 7%
✅ Electrical/Electronics – 4%
✅ Others – 12%
✅ Industrial Machinery – 1%

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🔆 Plastic Pollution: Challenges & Sectoral Contribution

📍 Global Context
✅ The world produces 400+ million tons of plastic annually.

📍 Key Challenges of Plastic Pollution
✅ Threat to Ecosystem: Harms marine and terrestrial biodiversity.
✅ Threat to Humans: Enters food chain, exposes humans to toxins.
✅ Threat to Climate: Emits GHGs during production, causes resource depletion.
✅ Economic Inequality: Affects livelihoods of fishers, farmers and vulnerable groups.
✅ Climate Injustice: Poorer countries bear a disproportionate waste burden.

📍 Sector-wise Contribution to Plastic Pollution (NCERT Data)
✅ Packaging – 36% (highest contributor)
✅ Building & Construction – 16%
✅ Textiles – 14%
✅ Consumer & Institutional Products – 10%
✅ Transportation – 7%
✅ Electrical/Electronics – 4%
✅ Others – 12%
✅ Industrial Machinery – 1%

#environment #mains #gs3


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@upsc_4_environment

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