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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: india; inreplace; nofo; plastic; plasticpollution; pollution; usaid
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1 posted on 01/29/2023 8:25:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why the hell do we keep sending taxpayer dollars to that craphole, India, and they keep sending their population to America?


2 posted on 01/29/2023 8:27:32 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Spay and neuter your "migrants" and liberals.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

More Democratic voters


3 posted on 01/29/2023 8:29:55 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
$30 million here and there....$42 'Billion' to Ukraine.....cha cha ching around the world!

His legacy continues....


4 posted on 01/29/2023 8:30:39 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These “causes” are just cover for pilferage from the taxpayers. It’s theft by fraud.


5 posted on 01/29/2023 8:30:49 AM PST by Spok (They lie, we know they lie, and they know that we know they are lying. And still they lie.)
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To: Spok

If you ask for a audit of where the money went, you get Arkancided.


6 posted on 01/29/2023 8:31:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

We have criminal government voted in by useful idiots.


7 posted on 01/29/2023 8:32:31 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now that sounds fair.(Just put me in an asylum)I really loosing it.


8 posted on 01/29/2023 8:32:44 AM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. Written in 2015.)
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Well if we kept manufacturing in America this wouldn’t be a problem since we actually had some laws about dumping garbage right into the ocean


9 posted on 01/29/2023 8:33:01 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: joma89

You have defined the root of our problem.


10 posted on 01/29/2023 8:34:42 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (The breaking point will be reached soon. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

About time we started helping Russia, rather than trying to go to war with them.


11 posted on 01/29/2023 8:34:55 AM PST by BobL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m tired of our government giving away money we don’t have. We print it, borrow it, and increase our debt to an incomprehensible level year after year.


12 posted on 01/29/2023 8:35:12 AM PST by KittyKares
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thirty million of unnecessary federal spending. Congress appropriated this money and now it will go on autopilot, increasing 7-8% a year. The budget is full of these items. Yet we are told the budget can’t be cut.

Give 10 halfway intelligent productive citizens the itemized federal budget and week of time to bring it into balance. You’ll see these spending items slashed and a balanced budget produced.


13 posted on 01/29/2023 8:38:10 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Globalists.


14 posted on 01/29/2023 8:38:59 AM PST by EEGator
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To: CletusVanDamme

This is why the founding fathers enshrined the requirement to be a land owner to vote.


15 posted on 01/29/2023 8:39:31 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AMERICA IS FUELING THE NWO


16 posted on 01/29/2023 8:42:55 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: joma89

Should have stayed that way.


17 posted on 01/29/2023 8:43:03 AM PST by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

How about raising 95% of the funds from outside sources? 100%? Why does any of the funding comes from the US government pointing a gun at its citizens?

18 posted on 01/29/2023 8:44:04 AM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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After traveling through 36 countries, The three most litter strewn areas of the world I have ever seen are Arkansas, Guatemala, and India


19 posted on 01/29/2023 8:45:47 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here he comes to save the day ...
Blank Biden is on the way ...
Every country is worth saving today ...
Just not the USA


20 posted on 01/29/2023 9:03:29 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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