{"id":10048,"date":"2024-03-28T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:17:48","slug":"pakistan-planed-zero-plastic-waste-cities-initiative-to-address-plastic-pollution-amb-munir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=10048","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan planed Zero Plastic Waste Cities initiative to address plastic pollution, Amb Munir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1711602007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1711602007.jpg 856w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1711602007-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1711602007-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New York &nbsp;:&nbsp; Pakistan has planned to implement \u2018Zero Plastic Waste Cities along the Indus under the overall framework of the \u2018Living Indus Initiative\u2019 to tackle the challenge of plastic pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN Munir Akram said the cities include Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Multan, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Munir Akram said Pakistan formulated the National Hazardous Waste Management Policy in 2022 in response to the challenge of hazardous waste management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding plastic waste, Ambassador Akram noted that Pakistan generates 3.9 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, with only twenty five percent to thirty percent being managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A significant portion of plastic waste, approximately 164,332 tonnes, is carried by the Indus River system to the sea each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it is in this context that Pakistan looks forward to the conclusion of an inter-governmentally binding treaty on plastic pollution.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &nbsp;:&nbsp; Pakistan has planned to implement \u2018Zero Plastic Waste Cities along the Indus under the overall framework of the \u2018Living Indus Initiative\u2019 to tackle the challenge of plastic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[414,316,291,460],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","tag-ambassador-of-pakistan-in-usa","tag-embassy-of-usa-pakistan","tag-ministry-of-climate-change","tag-zero-plastic-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10050,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions\/10050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}