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Activist and environmentalist groups have termed the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations that concluded, on Tuesday as “disappointing”. The member countries deliberated for nearly a week to iron out a legally binding agreement to “end plastic pollution”. This was the fourth round of talks since countries resolved in 2022 to eliminate plastics and formed an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), which consisted of government representatives tasked with drawing up a timeline for countries to not only eliminate plastic use but also halt production.
However the close connection between plastics and the oil economies of prominent countries, the vast manufacturing businesses that revolve around making and supplying different grades of plastics, the near ubiquity of the polymer’s use in a variety of applications and the paucity of affordable, equivalent alternatives constitute the biggest roadblocks to its elimination. Because plastics do not easily degrade organically, they pollute marine and terrestrial ecosystems and have been long characterised as among the toughest environmental contaminants.
Source – https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/plastic-treaty-ta
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Passage 2
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has got a lookout circular against Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of H.D. Deve Gowda and ‘absconding’ member of Parliament of Hassan. The party has suspended the MP who is accused of sexual harassment of several women and is believed to be in Germany.
The government of the state has set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations.
The lookout circular has been issued to all immigration points across India, which means Prajwal Revanna will be detained as soon as he reports at any of the immigration points at airports, sea ports, or at border checkposts.
Source- https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/praj
