World Environment Day 2025: Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling marks a shift in mindset and material worth, proving that sustainability and scalability can go hand in hand in building a circular, value-driven economy.
The world is facing an environmental crisis, and central to it is the mounting problem of waste, particularly plastic pollution, which strains the planet’s ability to regenerate.
In this context, India is facing its own environmental pressures. The growing economy, rapid urbanisation, and soaring population have spiked the demand for single-use plastics and packaging materials.
As per recent studies, India has emerged as the world’s largest plastic polluter, accounting for nearly 20% of the total global plastic waste and generating around 9.3 million tonnes of waste annually. About 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste are mismanaged and leak into the environment annually, alongside India’s per capita plastic consumption growing to approximately 11 kg per year, underscoring the urgent need to reduce plastic consumption and efficiently manage various types of plastic across their lifecycle.