India Plastics Pact Unveils Roadmap to 2030
30 August 2022: The India Plastics Pact, a joint initiative between the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India), supported by WRAP, an international NGO specialising in tackling plastics pollution, today launched the India Plastics Pact’s Roadmap to 2030 to drive forward action towards creating a circular economy for plastic packaging in India.
The Roadmap has been developed to accelerate progress towards four ambitious, time-bound targets for reducing, innovating and re-imagining plastic packaging. India Plastics Pact’s targets to be achieved by 2030 are:
– Define a list of unnecessary or problematic plastic packaging and items and take measures to address them through redesign and innovation
– 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable
– 50% of plastic packaging to be effectively recycled
– 25% average recycled content across all plastic packaging
The Roadmap lays out the actions to be taken by the Pact’s signatories over the next eight years to ensure that these targets are met. Some of the priority actions for businesses in the next two years include:
– Addressing problematic and unnecessary plastic items that go beyond the Government of India single-use plastic ban
– Initiating a consumer awareness campaign
– Developing and disseminating design guidances for enhanced recyclability of packaging and
– Stimulating greater investment in improved reuse and recycling infrastructure.
Since its launch in September 2021, the India Plastics Pact has undertaken several activities to enable the transition to a circular plastics economy. Four Collaborative Actions Groups (CAGs) have been set up to identify and address challenges in the Indian context. A comprehensive data reporting process has been developed to track progress towards the targets. The Pact has also commissioned three technical projects to strengthen data and information in the Indian context on the informal waste sector, small format & small sachet packaging and rPET in food contact packaging.
Ms. Seema Arora, Deputy Director General, CII, said, “We are delighted to launch the India Plastics Pact’s Roadmap today – it lays out a long-term strategy which will help stakeholders at each part of the plastic value chain to bring about a systemic shift that is required to realize a circular economy for plastics packaging by 2030. I am confident that this Roadmap will act as a beacon for change – leading to socioeconomic changes, creating employment opportunities, fostering innovation and driving investments which will help transition to a circular plastics economy.”
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