A lot of money involved the Global Market for Waste Recycling is worth 300000000000. 00 thats according to consultants from frost and sullivan Plastics Recycling alone is estimated to account for 37600000000. 20 between 1950 to 2078 point 3000000000 metric tons of plastic has been produced so lets put that in context thats a quibble and 25000. 00 empire state buildings or thats enough to cover the entire country of argentina were still 3 quarters of all plastic produces now and landfills or in the ocean only 9 percent gets recycled and 12 percent isnt center rated. Over 25 years china imported 106000000 metric tons or 45 percent of all Plastic Waste and china will only by Plastic Waste it is 99. 9 percent pure in other words recyclable exporters mostly from rich nations scramble to find new markets such was the scale of chinas imports countries like malaysia indonesia thailand and vietnam were soon swapped and unable to cope it took the philippines 6 years to send 60 containers of toxi
Honeymoon from the rancher modis landslide victory was short lived reality struck as the economy lost its title as the worlds Fastest Growing large economy and truth the economy was brushed under the carpet as modi concentrated on Security Issues modi had carefully crafted his image around his track record in the Economic Development of his native state of gujarat he promised to repeat that performance nationwide the economy expanded just 5. 8 percent putting it firmly behind chinas growth of 6. 4 percent asias 3rd biggest economy managed to grow 6. 8 percent in the full fiscal year ending march 31st its slowest growth since 2014 and thats a problem because india needs to create 10000000 new jobs a year to keep up with the 1000000 young people entering the workforce every month and the trouble is that not even the former economic adviser believes the countrys economic numbers now modi has appointed the countrys 1st female finance minister since interior gandhi to tackle the challenges
A lot of money involved the Global Market for Waste Recycling is worth 300000000000. 00 thats according to consultants from frost and sullivan Plastics Recycling alone is estimated to account for 37600000000. 00 in 2018 between 1950 to 2078 point 3000000000 metric tons of plastic has been produced so lets put that in context thats a quibble and 25000. 00 empire state buildings or thats enough to cover the entire country of argentina were still 3 quarters of all plastic produces now and landfills or in the ocean only 9 percent gets recycled and 12 percent isnt center rated. Over 25 years china imported 106000000. 00 metric tons or 45 percent of all Plastic Waste and china will only buy Plastic Waste that is 99. 9 percent pure in other words recyclable exporters mostly from rich nations scramble to find new markets such was the scale of chinas imports countries like malaysia indonesia thailand and vietnam were soon swapped and unable to cope it took the philippines 6 years to send 60 con
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki
Testimony on capitol hill from the white house budget director, shalanda young. A special welcome to director young, who has had a very busy past few weeks and we look forward to your testimony. The budget is a statement of values that makes clear what we prioritize. President bidens budget would lower costs for households, strengthen medicare and protect Social Security. Invest in our kids, families, and communities. Reducing the deficit and making our corrupted tax code fairer. It is decidedly not budget for b billionaires and for creepy billionaires and fossil fuel overlords. Its a budget for families. These investments are more than worthwhile, they are overdue. I challenge anyone to say it isnt worthwhile to make investments in our kids. This would create Childcare Options for 60 million kids and fund prek access for fouryearolds and restore the full Child Tax Credit which we beta tested and saw work wonderfully well through covid. I challenge anyone to say that it isnt worthwhile