{"id":363181,"date":"2020-07-17T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363181"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:43:30","slug":"niti-aayog-pushes-mandatory-use-of-25-recycled-material-in-infra-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/niti-aayog-pushes-mandatory-use-of-25-recycled-material-in-infra-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"NITI Aayog pushes mandatory use of 25% recycled material in infra projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niti Aayog will recommend to the government that it mandate the use of recycled materials up to 25 per cent in large infrastructure projects, in line with the global move to promote the use of secondary products.<br \/>\nSpeaking in a webinar organised by the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) on Wednesday, Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of Niti Aayog, said: \u201cWe will recommend to the government that it should make 25 per cent use of recycled products \u2014 metals, plastics and paper \u2014 in large infrastructure projects to promote secondary products across India.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Currently, secondary products hardly find space in large infrastructure projects because of a strong presence of primary products, which are available for the same price as secondary products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niti Aayog will recommend to the government that it mandate the use of recycled materials up to 25 per cent in large infrastructure projects, in line with the global move to promote the use of secondary products. Speaking in a webinar organised by the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) on Wednesday, Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of Niti Aayog, said: \u201cWe will recommend to the government that it should make 25 per cent use of recycled products \u2014 metals, plastics and paper \u2014 in large infrastructure projects to promote secondary products across India.\u201d Currently, secondary products hardly find space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363181","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}