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US taxpayers to pony up $30M to help world's 5th-ranked economic power reduce plastic pollution
Just the News ^ | Updated: January 28, 2023 - 11:42pm | Mary Lou Lang

Posted on 01/29/2023 8:25:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

U.S. taxpayers will be on the hook for $30 million in new cooperative grant funding to reduce plastic pollution in India, according to a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) posted by the United States Agency for International Development MIssion in India.

"The purpose of the activity is to reduce plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, through improvements in solid waste management and advancing a plastics circular economy in selected regions of India," according to the posted synopsis for the program, Innovations for Reducing Plastics for a Cleaner Environment in India (inREPLACE).

Under the terms of the grant's cooperative agreement the winning applicant will be responsible for raising $15 million, or 50% of the $30 million award amount from outside sources.

USAID/India will be partnering with India's government to address the issue of plastic pollution by "improving plastic and solid waste management planning, infrastructure, and services" and "addressing the life cycle impacts of plastics and other materials by promoting a circular economy," according to the project's thumbnail description.

"For this three-phased NOFO, the applicant is required to leverage 50% of the award amount from other sources, external to the United States Government," the posting explains.

"Plastic pollution from mismanaged municipal solid waste (MSW) has reached a crisis level in India and around the world, filling open dumps, being openly burned, clogging city drains, entering canals, streams, and rivers, and eventually leaking into the ocean," according to the program description provided by USAID/India in the accompanying background material.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: india; inreplace; nofo; plastic; plasticpollution; pollution; usaid
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

James Madison: “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of government.”

You see, charity is RELIGION. And government charity is the forcing of citizens to participate in a government-established religion.

Put charitable causes ENTIRELY back into the hands of the PEOPLE and out of the crooked, thieving, sanctimonious hands of politicians. You know, the kind who pontificate about our duties while not lifting the smallest thread of them with their own hands. And, in fact, skimming hefty fortunes for themselves in the process of so-called SACRIFICE.


21 posted on 01/29/2023 9:04:58 AM PST by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who are the conslutants being paid this money and who are they related to. What politician here is benefitting fron this small budget iten?


22 posted on 01/29/2023 9:07:41 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: KittyKares

Is there any country that gives us money? We need to tell the youth they will be paying the rest of their lives for this foolishness.


23 posted on 01/29/2023 9:38:50 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Time to let the Euroweenies pay for their green new deals


24 posted on 01/29/2023 9:44:49 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Tax-the-shit-out-of-us


25 posted on 01/29/2023 9:52:27 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did they request the money in Google Play cards or as cash wrapped in tin foil and sent by FedEx?


26 posted on 01/29/2023 10:01:10 AM PST by posterchild
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The question of the day.....why send ANY money to India, Brazil, China, etc.

Sheer stupidity.

27 posted on 01/29/2023 10:06:26 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s money laundering back into the Dems pockets. All this kind of stuff is.


28 posted on 01/29/2023 10:47:01 AM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Plastic ? Maybe they’ll use it for building Toilets


29 posted on 01/29/2023 10:58:09 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: dsrtsage

“ After traveling through 36 countries, The three most litter strewn areas of the world I have ever seen are Arkansas, Guatemala, and India.”
India is a real craphole for sure. The southern border between El Paso TX and Douglas AS is beginning to rival any other craphole in the world.


30 posted on 01/29/2023 11:29:35 AM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who pumps the most plastics into the oceans? China followed by Indonesia, which is surrounded by oceans. This is real pollution that is killing fisheries and ocean life.

Not fake CO2 pollution that creates fake climate change.


31 posted on 01/29/2023 11:33:53 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If everyone in India picked up 1 item then disposed of properly then all the trash would be cleaned up in one day.


32 posted on 01/29/2023 3:25:28 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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