{"id":10608,"date":"2023-05-06T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:50:59","slug":"world-environment-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-environment-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Environment Day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objective of the day:<\/strong> World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Date of observance:<\/strong> Every year on 5th of June.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why June 5? <\/strong>To mark the first day of The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which was held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5\u201316 in 1972.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First year of observance of WED:<\/strong> In 1974 the first WED was held with the theme &#8220;Only One Earth&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>theme<\/strong> for World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0How plastics are made?<\/h3>\n<p>Plastics are made from natural materials such as cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt and crude oil through a polymerisation or polycondensation process<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1922190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>World Environment Day 2023 to be celebrated with a thrust on Mission LiF<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}