What Indian firms can learn from global plastic waste management

Stakeholders in the value chain across the world are trying out innovative solutions to manage plastic waste

The debate raging over eliminating single-use plastic in India mirrors a growing global impatience over the ecological challenges this otherwise useful material poses. The country which generates 15,342 tonnes of plastic waste every day (TERI, 2018) and the industry, which represents the “whipping boy” in the discourse, can also learn a lesson or two from successful plastic waste management strategies adopted globally.

Be it corporations, civic agencies or the general public — stakeholders in the value chain across the world are trying out innovative solutions, clearly laying down regulation and enforcing adherence of these rules, besides incentivising households for recycling. One