• Lack of water, sanitation and hygiene results in the loss of 400,000 lives per year in India.
• 600 million people – nearly half India’s population – face acute water shortage, with close to 200,000 dying each year from polluted water.
• Nearly 70 per cent of India’s water is contaminated, impacting three in four Indians and contributing to 20 per cent of the country’s disease burden.
• More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years old are attributable to an unhealthy environment.
• One tonne of plastic is used to make one kilometre of road in India. India has built one lakh kilometres of roads in at least 11 states using discarded plastic.
• A printed circuit board (PCBs) (used in cellular phones and personal computers) contains about 280 g/ton-waste of gold.
• One tonne of recycled paper saves approximately 17 trees, 2.5 barrels of oil, 4100 kWh of electricity, 4 cubic metres of the landfill and 31,780 litres of water.
• Recycling has the potential to create six times more jobs and generate around INR 14 lakh crore of additional cost savings by 2030.

Credits: https://www.investindia.gov.in/waste-to-wealth