Plastic Waste in India: overview, impact, and measures to mitigate: Review

Sugata  Datta; Dr. Abhishek Chauhan; Anuj  Ranjan; Hardeep Singh  Tuli; Kuldeep  Dhama; Abul Hasan  Sardar; Tanu  Jindal

doi:10.18006/2022.10(3).456.473

Authors

Sugata Datta Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida 201303, India
Dr. Abhishek Chauhan Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management, Amity University Noida, UP, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6475-1266
Anuj Ranjan Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management, Amity University Noida, UP, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2592-9716
Hardeep Singh Tuli Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Ambala 133207, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1155-0094
Kuldeep Dhama Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Bareilly 243122, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7469-4752
Abul Hasan Sardar Sarsuna College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal 700073, India
Tanu Jindal Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management, Amity University Noida, UP, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7932-0503

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18006/2022.10(3).456.473

Keywords:

Plastic waste, Waste recycling, Waste processing, Bioplastics, EPR

Abstract

India is one of the world’s large and fastest-growing economies. With the expanding development, the usage of plastic for anthropogenic activities has expanded many folds and India alone generated around 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic in the financial year 2019. 79 percent of the plastic generated worldwide enters our land, water, and environment as waste; part of it also enters our bodies through the food chain. The industry in India states that 60 percent of what is generated is recycled and we had assumed that we had solved the problem of plastic waste by recycling, or burying it in landfills. But we were incorrect. Plastic garbage is omnipresent today. It is filling up our oceans and harming marine life and affecting all organisms in the food chain. With the development of economic growth of the country per capita consumption of plastic will only increase in the coming years and we will end up generating more plastic waste The review paper aimed to examine the major impact of plastic waste in India and how to reduce plastic consumption, considering measures such as phasing out or banning multilayered plastics that cannot be recycled, contemplating renewable raw materials, promoting the use of bioplastics, incentivizing the recycling business, and making the rules and guidelines for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) simple and enforceable.

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