{"id":291541,"date":"2019-09-13T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291541"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:25:57","slug":"odisha-plans-use-of-plastic-waste-in-road-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/odisha-plans-use-of-plastic-waste-in-road-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha plans use of plastic waste in road construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: As road construction provides a solution to the gigantic problem of plastic wastes, the State Government on Wednesday asked the Works department to prepare a guideline for the use of the environmentally unfriendly waste in construction works. The directive of the State Government came in the wake of the Centre asking all States to use plastic waste in road construction.<\/p>\n<p>The move gained momentum after the recent announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put an end to single-use plastic. In a recent letter to Chief Secretary Ashit Tripathy, Union Rural Development Secretary Amarjeet Sinha advised the State to increase the recycling rate as plastic waste is choking urban centres and disposal of such wastes needs to be taken up in a systematic manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: As road construction provides a solution to the gigantic problem of plastic wastes, the State Government on Wednesday asked the Works department to prepare a guideline for the use of the environmentally unfriendly waste in construction works. The directive of the State Government came in the wake of the Centre asking all States to use plastic waste in road construction. The move gained momentum after the recent announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put an end to single-use plastic. In a recent letter to Chief Secretary Ashit Tripathy, Union Rural Development Secretary Amarjeet Sinha advised the State to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}