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@SandhyaTimes4u How can a newspaper call street vendors ‘encroachers’? Do you work for the people or for big business? Street vending is a legal right under the 2014 Act. Try reporting the truth, not prejudice.Did you ever report on Illegal Car Parking? #StreetVendorsAct2014

Happy Independence Day! On #IndependenceDay2025,lets together seek independence from petrochemical toxins & hazards by getting rid of all single-use plastics from our lives #SUP kills, #Reuse was the past & is the future! #PlasticsTreaty @brkfreeplastic @UNEP @PMOIndia @moefcc

Plastic is killing existing life & fuelling INFERTILITY, including in humans! Magic of @ril_foundation‘s greenwashing works to hide this too,so such topics are never discussed by @MoHFW_INDIA or in @UNEP for #PlasticsTreaty 4/4 @brkfreeplastic @cfa_ind plasticsfuelinfertility.cenfa.org

Dear @RIL_Updates,your plastic is killing it,literally! Look around &you easily spot association between death &plastic demon-by drawing dead from underground (fossil fuels-crude oil&natural gas) &shaping them into plastics,you have not left any living being unharmed1/4 @PMOIndia

In a country that equates God with cows, people have been conditioned to not care that each cow now has 30-40 kgs of @RIL_Updates made toxic plastics inside them, causing them to starve to a slow & painful death. That's how effective their greenwashing is! 3/4

This plastic monster didn’t just arise by itself, RIL & @ril_foundation have made dedicated efforts to nurture it,shielding it from strict policy action using part of enormous profits that it helps them pocket at huge cost to health of people & ecology 2/4 youtu.be/cuVMBwHO2lQ

Dear @ril_foundation, you can’t hide behind all the greenwashing tactics! Your lobby has ensured that @PMOIndia joins hands with China &other petro-states to derail #PlasticsTreaty process @UNEP meetings even though people of India need a strong treaty 4/4 toxictours.org/location/india…

Dear @RIL_Updates, your profits are made at huge cost to our environment & public health - especially of vulnerable & marginalised communities. Your plastic is littered all around & tragically, most Indians don’t even know that you manufactured bulk of it 1/4 @PMOIndia @moefcc

Even water is commodified using plastic that you produce & we’ve been brainwashed to believe bottled water (which is full of toxins& micro-nano plastics) is healthier, while in reality its poison (&industry is stealing water from the poor to bottle it) 3/4 instagram.com/reel/DLZ3JFnSc…

People assume they’re responsible for #PlasticPollution & get busy in beach-cleanups, plogging, swachhta pakhwadas, & what not. They don’t realise that plastic became omnipresent after you inaugurated #JamnagarRefinery in1999, ie in just last 25 years! 2/4 @moefcc @brkfreeplastic

நீங்க எரிக்கக்கூடாது, நாங்க மட்டும்தான் எரிப்போம்ணு சொல்றாங்களா? 🤔

Full report is available here & provides good insights on what should be the focus at #PlasticsTreaty discussion in #INC5.2 in Geneva Dear @UNEP @PMOIndia @NITIAayog, please note & fight for people, not profits! 2/2 breakfreefromplastic.org/2024/02/07/bff…

Dear @moefcc 2023 Brand Audit report reiterates that #SUP pollution is from FMCGs like @CocaCola @Nestle @MaggiIndia @PepsiCo & @Unilever, so it is important for India to #QuitSachets by including them in #SUPban 1/2 @brkfreeplastic #StreetVendorsChooseReuse

On this #WorldEnvironmentDay2025, we demand that @moefcc @PMOIndia stop promoting WTEs. they are toxic,add tons of GHGs thus accelerating climate crisis & worsen the already poor #AQI. Instead eliminate single-use plastic #SUP from all F&B supply chains including @eCateringIRCTC

Big solar can’t mean big land grabs. The now-cancelled @ADB_HQ funded Assam Solar Park threatened forests, water sources, elephant migration paths — & Indigenous livelihoods. 🚫 Green energy must NOT come at the cost of human rights.

..tiffin carriers,plates,glasses,mugs,water filters &waste bins This is a small but powerful move toward lasting change,advocating for fairness &building a truly sustainable, #reuse-based system #ReuseAndGain #PlasticFreeIndia #INC5 #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 @UNEP @brkfreeplastic

Single-use plastic(SUP) continues to b widely used in food&beverage packaging,especially by FMCGs @CocaCola @pepsi @Nestle @Unilever, often w/out accountability. Meanwhile,street vendors bear the brunt of enforcement & pay hefty fines for using same SUPs due2 @moefcc policies 1/3

To challenge this unfair system & lead by example,the National Hawker Federation has taken a bold step2 eliminate SUP from food vending practices. Starting at our Kolkata office, we have replaced all SUP items with reusable stainless-steel alternatives- including water jugs.. 2/3

Coke says it can’t meet its reuse target but its operations in El Paso, TX tell another story! Learn more in Exposed: Coke’s Secret Refill Pilot from @storyofstuff : youtube.com/watch?v=aR_E5d… #cocacola #plasticpollution #reuse #refill

Street vendors in India are happy to go for reusable utensils if Govt provides them with dish-washing centres where they can get utensils washed for a fee. "We have to reorient from single-use to #Reuse"! #Plasticstreaty #inc5 @brkfreeplastic