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Context:
- The India Plastics Pact, the first in Asia, will be launched in September at the CII Annual Sustainability Summit.
About India Plastics Pact:
- The India Plastics Pact is an ambitious, collaborative initiative that aims to bring together businesses, governments and NGOs across the whole value chain to set time-bound commitments to reduce plastics from their value chains.
- The India Plastics Pact aims to promote public-private collaborations that enable solutions to eliminate the plastics we do not need, bring innovation to packaging design, and to capture the value of the plastics we use.
- The Pact aims to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy that will:
Why does India need a Plastics Pact?
- 9 .46million tonnes of plastic waste India generates annually
- 40 %plastic waste goes uncollected
- 43 %all plastics produced in India are used for packaging, majority of them being single-use.
How will it work?
- The Pact will create a unified national framework for a circular economy for plastics with aligned targets and associated reporting.
- It will provide a platform for collaboration, learning and tangible action.
- All stakeholders will support a joint set of ambitious and time-bound targets, ensuring that this collaboration will drive significant change by 2030.
- The Indian Plastics Pact will also build on the positive work started by other initiatives and help scale up and disseminate good practice more.
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-circular-economy-for-plastic/article35825072.ece
