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Waste ManageMent

Plastic Waste
Taming the Untamed

While India has taken up plastic waste management aggressively by
introducing policies, automation and collaboration with corporates
and other professional bodies to educate and implement segregation,

disposal and recycling of waste, there is still a long way to go to
achieve the target of 100% retrieval of plastic produced. Our esteemed
panellists at the Waste Management & Technology Conference in
Mumbai, Aniket Gavas, BDM & Sustainability, The Shakti Plastic
Industries. K. Ganesh, Senior General Manager Corporate Affairs,

Communications and Sustainability, Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd,
Ashish Jain, Director, Indian Pollution Control Association, Suraj
Nandakumar, CEO, RECITY Network Pvt. Ltd and Zakaria Joy,
Founder & CEO, Northamps ENV Solutions, CEO, RECITY Network
Pvt. Ltd, discussed how issues facing implementation could be
overcome and what would be the way forward in the coming years.

EPR and its impact impact of waste materials. of producers is yet to be
It was expected that EPR covered under the policy.
India has adopted registration would include While compostable and
the Extended Producer all plastic producers, biodegradable plastic are not
Responsibility (EPR) policy however, the government considered under EPR, the
to focus primarily on the has exempted Medium and policy does not differentiate
recycling of consumer Small Manufacturers. Since between virgin and
products like plastic to they represent about 80% of biodegradable plastic. Though
minimise the environmental the industry, a large segment both are transparent, virgin

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