Only 60% of plastic waste generated is recycled: Bisleri
New Delhi: According to Bisleri, India consumes 13 million tons of plastic each year, and 60% of them are recycled. 40% of the remaining plastic contains mostly non -recyclable items such as packaging, plastic bags, milk bags and multi -layered chips packages.
In order to reduce the amount of plastic that ends in regular storage areas and water bodies and at the same time to promote sustainability, the Packed Water Company Bisleri International, citizens, plastic collection agents and recycling, and recycling, presented a mobile application bottles of change bottles ”attempting to promote plastic recycling.
Under the initiative, he gathered more than 19,300 tons of plastic and recycled, K. Ganesh, Director – Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Bisleri International, Mint Sustainability Summit 2025.
“The plastic used should be thrown and sent for recycling and sent for recycling, Gan Ganesh said, because people often threw plastic garbage after consumption.
Encouraging the circular economy
“Our Plastic Waste Management Program, our Plastic Waste Management Program, to implement the resource discrimination, to eliminate the resource separation responsibly and to be sent for recycling to promote a circular economy, thus educating and strengthening the plastics from the storage areas to reach our oceans,” he said.
The company also has an application in which we collect plastics used from registered stakeholders and channel the bottles of recycling facilities where the bottles are converted into new products and even as bottles. Multi -layered plastics are re -placed in multi -layered plastic layers that allow each part to find a second life ”.
According to Ganesh, all pet (polyethylene tereftthalate) used by bis or other beverage companies can be recycled and converted to fiber yarn that can be used to make fabric and dress materials.
PET bottles can be recycled to produce Rpet (recycled pet) used to make bottles for food class packaging applications, causing less difficulty over natural resources.
The government’s extended manufacturer’s responsibility (EPR) regulations require manufacturers, importers and brand owners to manage the post -consumer waste of their products.
In India, this includes the rules of plastic waste management under the rules such as 2016, and it includes compulsory registration, sending EPR Action Plans, achieving annual recycling targets and reporting their efforts.
The aim is to encourage a circular economy, to reduce waste and to ensure that products such as plastic packaging, e-Atık and batteries are disposed of as responsible for the environment.
Bis also collected bottle caps and made the benches.
“The stalls were made with only 60 kg cover.
