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Waste ManageMent
plastic is not biodegradable and
it could create complications and
hinder the recycling process.
Simplifying
automation
In the years before 2022,
plastic producers would submit
hard copies of documents to the
Central Pollution Control Board
annually. Since the CPCB had
neither the time, manpower nor
space to store and verify these
documents, it took the initiative
to develop an online portal. This
As a company, we started was a good start, but teething What needs to be
collecting all the plastic problems like difficulty in understood is India
uploading thousands of invoices
we had put into the market during year-end, duplication of does not have a plastic
and from 2021 we became invoices and incomplete data pollution problem,
a plastic-neutral company. in dashboards persist and need we have a waste
We have taken the to be resolved. Small vendors, management problem.
initiative for plastic waste who do not have trained staff We have coconuts, cloth,
management and since should also be able to register electrical waste, and
and upload documents with ease.
2015 have collected 7000 Educating stakeholders on the so many other kinds
metric tonnes of plastic. use of the portal was important. of waste. Fortunately,
This initiative has been a It is expected that in the next or unfortunately,
great success and we have seven years, by 2030, there plastic is considered
received a lot of appreciation would be greater enforcement the cheerleader of this
and support from the of regulations in the area of entire discussion, but the
municipal corporations. plastic collection on stakeholders problem is much bigger.
like brand owners, producers,
K Ganesh importers, re-users and recyclers. Suraj Nandakumar
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