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Plastic Pollution: How Long Must We Wait for Consensus?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: August 20, 2025
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Plastic Pollution: How Long Must We Wait for Consensus?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Foreword The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), he ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Foreword The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), held in Geneva in August 2025, was expected to mark a historic turning point in the fight against ...

August 20, 2025
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Splintering the Continuum of Plastic Pollution

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: July 06, 2024
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Splintering the Continuum of Plastic Pollution

Dr. Arvind Kumar* NO ONE IS USING PLASTICS !! Single use plastics is banned, still SUPs are readily avail ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* NO ONE IS USING PLASTICS !! Single use plastics is banned, still SUPs are readily available in the market, is being used shamelessly and its waste is as abundantly found as it was tw ...

July 06, 2024
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The essentiality of the Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: April 12, 2024
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The essentiality of the Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and polluti ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste is upon us and bearing down harder every year. If we do not act strongly, this cri ...

April 12, 2024
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Prospective expectations from the Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: June 02, 2023
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Prospective expectations from the Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and polluti ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste is upon us and bearing down harder every year. If we do not act strongly, this cri ...

June 02, 2023
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Can we shatter the shackles of Plastic Debris?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: May 19, 2023
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Can we shatter the shackles of Plastic Debris?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The choice for the first set of single-use plastic items for the ban was based on "diff ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* The choice for the first set of single-use plastic items for the ban was based on "difficulty of collection, and therefore recycling. While technology takes its leaps and bounds to h ...

May 19, 2023
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Can INC-1 promulgate us from the slough of plastics?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: December 30, 2022
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Can INC-1 promulgate us from the slough of plastics?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Without a common international regulatory framework, we will not be able to address the ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Without a common international regulatory framework, we will not be able to address the global and increasing challenge of plastic pollution. There is an urgent need for change. The ...

December 30, 2022
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Tackling Plastic Pollution

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: March 21, 2022
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Tackling Plastic Pollution

Dr. Arvind Kumar* On average, 1,000,000 plastic bottles are bought every minute worldwide, and less than ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* On average, 1,000,000 plastic bottles are bought every minute worldwide, and less than half of all plastic bottles end up getting recycled, and besides, plastic water bottles release ...

March 21, 2022
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Reduce reuse and recycle: Need of the hour

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: December 06, 2016
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Reduce reuse and recycle: Need of the hour

Increase in #groundwater demand for agriculture etc is stressing available water sources and for this we ...

Increase in #groundwater demand for agriculture etc is stressing available water sources and for this we have to #recycle and #reuse #wastewater efficiently which needs multi-dynamical approach of tec ...

December 06, 2016
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