India will ban single-use plastic, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Modi had urged people and various government bodies to initiate India’s drive towards making a disposable plastic-free nation during his Independence Day speech.
Prime Minister Modi had urged people and various government bodies to initiate India’s drive towards making a disposable plastic-free nation during his Independence Day speech.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation recently announced that the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons Co., Ltd. has adopted shopping and wrapping bags made from MCC’s BioPBSTM plant-derived and biodegradable polymer.
DePoly has developed an innovative method that can recycle just about any PET container using a chemical process that breaks down the plastic into its base compounds.
The GAIL, central public sector undertaking, will help the government’s premier R&D body CSIR in scaling up new technology of converting plastic waste to automotive grade diesel.
In order to meet the deadline of single-use plastic ban that kicks in on October 2, Ministry of Consumer Affairs has given three days to the packaged drinking water industry to come up with a solution for it.
Cosmo Films, a global leader in speciality films for flexible packaging, has recently added two new products to its synthetic paper portfolio.
There is no imminent ban on the use of single-use plastic (SUP) in India, according to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) will soon be coming out with a report on draft guidelines to achieve plastic ban in India that they have already submitted to NGT.
Packaging materials and solutions provider BillerudKorsnäs introduces a revolution for online retail. The new product, Xpression E-Com, is a paper quality specially designed for e-commerce bags providing a superior and direct substitute for single-use plastic mailing bags and other less efficient solutions.
The German Packaging Register (Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister; ZSVR) has published the first minimum standard for assessing packaging designed for recycling.
Amazon’s India unit announced on Wednesday that, it would replace all single use plastic in its packaging by June 2020 with paper cushions.
All plastic Coca-Cola bottles smaller than 1-litre, including all water bottles, will be made entirely from recycled plastic by the end of this year.