India Plastics Pact

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