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India to become first Asian country to launch a Plastics Pact

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The FINANCIAL —  UK partners with India to deliver a circular plastics economy.India has become the first Asian country to develop a plastics pact, launching a ground-breaking new initiative to bring together leading businesses at a national level to make commitments for building a circular system for plastics, UKRI notes.

The India Plastics Pact (IPP) has launched as a collaboration between:

WWF India

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the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

The pact is supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and WRAP, and endorsed by the British High Commission in India.

In Autumn 2020, UKRI committed £250,000 of funding to:

enable WRAP to establish the India Plastics Pact
initiate start-up
engage the Indian government
develop the appropriate targets and priority work streams for India.
Launching the pact

The pact was formally announced on 3 September, at the CII 16th Sustainability Summit. Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair of NERC spoke at the event alongside Alex Ellis, the British High Commissioner to India who was the keynote speaker.

Alex applauded the initiatives and the direction in which the partnership between India and the UK is moving to tackle plastic waste. Alex emphasised the 2030 UK-India roadmap established by Prime Minsters Boris Johnson and Narendra Modi earlier this year.

As part of the launch, 27 businesses and supporting organisations, including major fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, manufacturers, retailers and recyclers made their commitment to the pact as founding members.

Businesses signed up include:

Amazon.com, Inc
Coca Cola India Pvt. Ltd
Mondelez India Foods Private Limited.
India generates 9.46 megatons of plastic waste annually, of which:

40% is not collected
about half of all plastics produced in the country are used in packaging, most of which is single-use in nature.
Unified national framework

Commitments made under the pact aim to keep plastic packaging in the economy and out of the natural environment by developing a unified national framework for a circular economy. That is, with aligned targets and reporting for businesses to reduce plastics from their value chains, to be measured against defined timelines.

The 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 or recyclable
50% of plastic packaging to be effectively recycled
25% average recycled content across all plastic packaging.
The Indian pact’s targets will address the elimination of unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging, ensure packaging becomes reusable, recyclable or compostable while also increasing the rates of:

reuse
collection
recycling
the recycled content in plastic packaging.
The UK has seen the success of the Plastic Pacts, stimulating demand-led innovation and significant investment from the private sector. UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging programme complements this by:

supporting industry-led collaborative research and development
investing in new technologies for the design, production, supply, recovery
recycling of plastic packaging in line with the UK Plastic Pact targets.
Bold initiatives

Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair, NERC:

India is currently working on various bold initiatives to reduce plastic waste and is committed to building a circular system for plastics to overcome waste management challenges. With a UKRI presence in India, we saw the opportunity to continue our work alongside WRAP to help our international partners replicate the successes of the UK’s Plastic Pact.

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The India Plastic Pact will complement and build on existing work and provide a mechanism to bring together governments, industry, researchers and practitioners to develop ways of reducing the level of plastic waste entering the environment.
Rebecca Fairbairn, Director of UKRI India:

Plastics pollution is a global issue and the opportunity to reorient plastics as a resource in the value chain is a global opportunity. Collaboration is key to unlocking this and the India Plastics Pact is testimony to India-UK research and innovation partnership to address key global issues.

The India Plastics Pact is the first in Asia and part of a growing global movement. What is most exciting about the Plastics Pact is that it brings together governments, businesses, researchers and NGOs to create sustainable, unified, national frameworks for circular economies that work specifically for each country.

In the UK, this has stimulated demand-led innovation to attain commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle the plastics in our environment.

UKRI India is excited to support the India Plastics Pact and the innovative solutions it will develop for plastics pollution in India.
A key pillar of the 2030 roadmap

HE Mr Alexander Ellis, British High Commissioner to India, said:

Protecting the climate and environment is a key pillar of the 2030 roadmap agreed by PMs Johnson and Modi, which sets out the UK and India’s shared ambition over the next decade. The UK is proud to be India’s biggest European research partner, with £400 million of joint investment in research and innovation since 2008.

Through joint efforts by CII, WWF-India, WRAP, UKRI, and members of the India Plastics Pact, this first of its kind initiative in Asia will complement India’s other bold initiatives in the renewables sector and efforts to limit single-use plastics.
Coordinated action

Marcus Gover, WRAP CEO said:

It is hugely significant to have such a strategically important force in the region and on the global stage on board with its own Plastics Pact.

The potential environmental and economic benefits to be gleaned from achieving the Pact’s ambitious goals are enormous for India. We have been able to bring all the learning and expertise we have amassed from supporting Plastics Pacts around the world to CII and WWF-India.

We look forward to continue working together to turn words into action and ending the scourge of plastic pollution for good.
Further information

Read further information about the India Plastics Pact.

Read more information about the UK Plastic Pact.

Find out more about the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge.

About the India Plastic Pact

The IPP is an ambitious, collaborative initiative that brings together businesses, governments, researchers, NGOs and other stakeholder across the whole value chain to set time-bound target-based commitments to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy.

The IPP envisions a world where plastics never become waste and it aims to achieve this by promoting a circular economy for plastics through a public-private collaboration that enables innovative ways to eliminate, reuse, or recycle the plastic packaging across the plastics value chain and collectively achieve the long-term targets.

The vision, targets and ambition of the IPP are aligned with the circular economy principles of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy. It will be the first plastics pact of its kind in Asia with a unified national framework for a circular economy for plastics, creating structured, coherent and aligned collective targets, with associated reporting.

 

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