Online Certificate Course: Managing Plastic Waste
Last date for receiving application 25th January 2022
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi.
CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.
We believe that the scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. This is what we aim to do.
The challenge, as we see it, is two-pronged. On one hand, millions live within a biomass-based subsistence economy at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, the opportunity to bring about change is enormous. But it will need a commitment to reform in the way we do business with local communities.
On the other hand, rapid industrialisation is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth.
This is the challenge of the balance.
Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and – more importantly – in pushing for answers and transforming these into policy and so, practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
About the Program
The world generates a whopping 275 million tonne of plastic waste annually. Over 50 per cent of the plastic that is manufactured for single-use packaging, finds its way into the municipal solid waste stream. Globally, of all the plastics that have been produced, only 9 per cent is recycled; about 12 per cent is incinerated. The rest is simply dumped, and a considerable amount of this plastic ends up polluting our environment – our land, our waterbodies and the air.
In India, an estimated 25,940 tonne of plastic waste is generated every day. Reportedly, the plastic recycling rate in India is 60 per cent. The remaining 40 per cent ends up in the environment.
The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) 2.0 provides a clear mandate to cities to increase segregation, collection and processing efficiency of plastic waste with the objective of recovering maximum value out of it. Urban local bodies have been given directives to prepare their City Solid Waste Action Plans (CSWAP) with special focus on plastic waste management. Financial assistance has also been committed by the Government of India. In addition, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has introduced a series of notifications on single-use plastics, plastic recycling and draft extended producer responsibility (EPR) to strengthen the mandate of SBM.
In view of this, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which has been working on guiding policy on the issue of managing this waste sustainably, Invites registrations for its weeklong online training programme on plastic waste management. The programme is based on CSE’s recognition of the need to adopt resource-efficient waste management regimes.
FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT:
SHAILSHREE TEWARI
Programme Officer,
Solid Waste Management Unit, CSE
Email: shailshree.tewari@cseindia.org
Phone: 8800371929
