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<ul><li>The government of India may ban six single-use plastic items on October 2. </li><li>Several state governments including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh already banned plastic products, with fines.</li></ul><ul><li>Here's the list of all the items that you won't be able to use after India bans single-use plastic. </li></ul>The Indian government is likely to put a <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/us-india-pollution-plastic-exclusive/exclusive-india-set-to-outlaw-six-single-use-plastic-products-on-october-2-sources-idINKCN1VI19F">blanket ban of six single-use plastic items</a> in a bid to reduce annual plastic consumption by 5-10%. The government will reportedly provide six months time for people to adapt to alternatives, before imposing a fine. Earlier, the P M Narendra Modi pledged to omit the use of <keyword id="6570438" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="single-use-plastic">single use plastic</keyword> by 2022 and urged e-commerce giants and big businesses to curb their use. What is Single-use plastic and why the government is banning it? Any plastic items which we will throw away or recycle after using it once comes under the single-use plastics. They include popular items like carrying bags, bottle caps, sachets, wrappers, food packets etc. What is the punishment for breaching the law? Several state governments including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh already banned plastic products, with fines. Maharashtra government levied a fine of ₹5,00 for first-time offenders, ₹10,000 for the second offense and a penalty of ₹25,000 with three-month jail for the third. States like Punjab imposed punishments that include five-year term prison with ₹1 lakh fine or both, for breaching the law. Here's a list of items that you won't be able to use if the government bans single-use plastic Plastic carry bags 
 
 
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Here are all the things you won't be able to use after India bans single-use plastics

<ul><li>The Indian environment ministry issued a letter to states and union territories informing them that there is no imminent ban on single-use plastics. </li><li>It also clarified that the ban would not affect multi-layered packaging, normally used for food and beverages. </li><li>The document shared by ministry outlines action points to achieve the goal of eliminating single-use plastic by 2022. </li></ul>Companies in India were anxious about the government implementing a nation-wide ban on plastic but it seems there are no plans to announce any such restrictions — for now. The environment ministry issued a document to states and union territories (UTs) clarifying that there is no ban on single-use plastics but that the country is still planning on eliminating their use by 2022, according to <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/plastic-curbs-to-spare-multi-layered-packaging/cid/1709407">The Telegraph</a>, "There is now a need to take it (the awareness) to a new level and ensure that by 2022, we eliminate single-use plastic from our society," stated Environment Secretary Chandra Kishore Mishra in the letter. The ministry outlines that states need to implement legislative interventions and behavioural changes to wean people away from consuming <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/In-some-countries-people-face-jail-time-for-using-plastic-bags-Here-are-all-the-places-that-have-banned-plastic-bags-and-straws-so-far-/articleshow/68712914.cms">single-use plastics</a>. Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s call to action during India’s 73rd <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/topic/Independence-day">Independence Day</a> had businesses in India worried about the potential economic impact. If such a ban were to be implemented, it would affect <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/here-are-all-the-things-you-wont-be-able-to-use-after-india-bans-single-use-plastics/articleshow/71375802.cms">everyday items</a> like plastic cups and plastic plates at food stalls, packaging on biscuits and sodas, and small bottles. Food and beverages are safe The environment ministry also clarified that any planned guidelines to curb the consumption of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=single+use+plastic&amp;sortorder=score&amp;curpg=1">single-use plastic</a>s will not apply to multi-layered plastic packaging, which is commonly used to package products like food and beverages. During the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/indian-pm-endorses-iit-camera-to-catch-inattentive-mps-in-parliament/articleshow/71376832.cms">Singapore-India Hackathon</a> at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on 30 September 2019, Modi clarified that he was exclusively campaigning against single-use plastic and not a plastic-free india. "Some people, by mistake, are talking about plastic-free India. I have not said this. I have said that single-use plastic, which comes to use only once, causes a lot of problems," explained Modi. The environment ministry pointed out that only <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/which-states-in-india-have-banned-plastic/articleshow/70218756.cms">five states</a> — Maharashtra, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh — currently have legislation in place to regulate plastic waste. It has asked other states to plan on introduce restrictions on plastic use to curate a list of products that they plan to on restricting. It also clarified that there may not be a requirement to ban plastic bottles, like the ones used for packaging water and sodas, and that the focus should be on making sure the bottles are recyclable and can be reprocessed. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/article/amazon-flipkart-and-bigbasket-are-racing-to-eliminate-single-use-plastic-from-their-supply-chain/articleshow/71402437.cms">Big Basket ahead of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart in eliminating single use plastics</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/here-are-all-the-things-you-wont-be-able-to-use-after-india-bans-single-use-plastics/articleshow/71375802.cms">Here are all the things you won't be able to use after India bans single-use plastics</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/mount-everest-will-turn-into-a-plastic-free-zone-by-2020-as-nepal-bans-it/articleshow/70780916.cms">Mount Everest will turn into a plastic-free zone by 2020 as Nepal bans it</a>

India won’t be banning plastic — for now

<ul><li><keyword id="6357886" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="phonepe">PhonePe</keyword> has banned <keyword id="6570438" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="single-use-plastic">single use plastic</keyword> from all of its offices.</li><li>It has over 40 offices across the country. </li><li>The company now plans to move to alternatives to plastic which are 100% reusable and 100% recyclable. </li></ul>Flipkart-owned PhonePe has banned single use plastic from all of its offices. It has over 40 offices across the country. The company plans to move to alternatives to plastic which are 100% reusable and 100% recyclable. “Nowadays there are many other cost-affordable and environmentally-friendly materials available. It’s high time we adopted these new materials and shed our addiction to disposable plastics,” said Sameer Nigam, Founder and CEO PhonePe. In the next few months, PhonePe will introduce a slew of measures across offices to create an eco-friendly and sustainable workspace. PhonePe was acquired by <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword> in 2016 and the e-commerce giant too has been waging a war against plastic. Recently, Flipkart announced a new initiative to collect plastic packaging from the customers’ doorstep. Flipkart had earlier said that it reduced single use plastics by 25% until August 2019, with multiple initiatives across its packaging value chain. It has a long term plan to use 100% recycled plastics in its own supply chain by March 2021. It’s also planning to use recycled paper bags for packaging. Meanwhile, Zomato and Swiggy too are working on reducing plastic use by switching to biodegradable alternatives. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/zomato-swiggy-ubereats-control-single-use-plastic/articleshow/71451827.cms">Zomato and Swiggy sell eco-friendly packaging to restaurants, to avoid single-use plastics</a>

PhonePe joins Flipkart in the fight against plastic, bans single use plastic

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10343788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="by-humankind">By Humankind</keyword>, a personal care products maker that doesn't use <keyword id="6599998" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="single-use-plastic">single-use plastic</keyword>s in its offerings has launched "<keyword id="34567" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="plastic">Plastic</keyword>, Neutral," a subscription service that allows customers to offset their single-use plastic footprint.</li><li>According to the company, the average person creates about 22 pounds of single-use plastic <keyword id="48779" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="waste">waste</keyword> monthly, and $8 per month can offset this footprint.</li><li>According to By Humankind's co-founder and CEO, Brian Bushell, $5 will go towards the "recovery of ocean-bound plastic," and $3 will go to "program administration."</li><li>Bushell predicts most of its customers will take advantage of this subscription service.</li></ul><a href="https://byhumankind.com/">By Humankind</a>, a personal care products maker that doesn't use single-use plastics in its offerings has launched "Plastic, Neutral," a subscription service that allows customers to offset their single-use plastics footprint.The subscription service is straightforward and doesn't involve any in-person action: all customers have to do is pay $8 per month.According to the company — which partnered with <a href="https://plasticbank.com/">Plastic Bank</a> for the service — the average person creates about 22 pounds of single-use plastic waste monthly. To combat this, the $8 will go to removing 22 pounds of plastic waste from around the world, creating what By Humankind's co-founder and CEO Brian Bushell calls "an offsetting ecosystem that keeps an individual's plastic footprint at 'neutral.'"Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-backed-startup-clean-energy-converting-trash-into-fuel-2019-12?r=bc-sub">Meet Sierra Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup that's raised $90 million to turn your trash into fuel</a>"We didn't create 'Plastic, Neutral' to sell more product," Bushell wrote to Business Insider in an email interview. "We created it to drive awareness around the global crisis of single-use plastic waste and give people a simple tool to do something about it.""If we are able to appeal to a larger audience who integrate By Humankind products into their daily routines and thus eliminating single-use plastics, that is a bonus," Bushell continued.According to Bushell, $1 is the equivalent of retrieving and recycling 4.4 pounds of single-use plastic. Therefore, of the $8, $5 will go towards the "recovery of ocean-bound plastic," and $3 will go to "program administration," creating what Bushell calls a "bridge" to a no-waste future.According to Bushell, <keyword id="6643077" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="plastic-bank">Plastic Bank</keyword> "monetizes the retrieval of ocean-bound plastic." This means those collecting the plastics will get a "premium," and their collected goods will then be made available for companies who want to use recycled plastics. This creates what Bushell calls a "closed-loop supply chain" that benefits even the plastic collectors.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/accenture-boss-pitch-deck-to-win-19m-for-anti-plastics-2020-10?r=bc-sub">We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck an ex-Accenture exec used to win $19 million for his plastic-busting startup</a>Most of the company's customers — which run all demographics, according to Bushell — purchase By Humankind's products to partake in the sustainability-focused, anti-single-use plastic movement that has gained traction in recent years.As a result, Bushell predicts most of its customers will use this new "Plastic, Neutral" subscription service.

This startup wants you to pay $8 a month to offset all the single-use plastic you consume

<ul><li><keyword id="830092" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Zomato">Zomato</keyword> will soon launch an online marketplace to help its restaurants procure eco-friendly packaging easily.</li><li><keyword id="6358977" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="swiggy">Swiggy</keyword> runs an initiative called Swiggy Packaging Assist with paper and glass as alternative options. </li><li>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the aim for 2022 to eradicate the use of single-use plastics.</li></ul>A restaurant owner in Delhi’s Rohini area has signed out of a food aggregator platform and asked a customer to come to the outlet with a tiffin box to collect food. What might sound like a funny incident, was actually a noble thought – the hotelier didn’t want to use plastic for <keyword id="6376068" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="food-delivery">food delivery</keyword>. While the Indian government might not have gone ahead with the <keyword id="6570438" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="single-use-plastic">single use plastic</keyword> ban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to eradicate the use of single-use plastics by 2022. And, it seems to have turned people wee bit conscious. If you order food online from Zomato, Swiggy, <keyword id="2960214" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ubereats">UberEats</keyword> or others, you would know about the plastic wrapping that comes along with the food – from the signature tape to plastic boxes. But aggregators are aware of the rising use of plastics by restaurant partners. Now, they are beginning to take up an active role. A marketplace for alternative packaging Two years back, Zomato was one of the first to come with an option called ‘don’t send cutlery’. The foodtech unicorn is also working with research-based start-ups and firms to introduce high quality, eco-friendly packaging. “For a wider use-case, we will soon be launching an online marketplace (akin to an e-commerce portal), employing our network of suppliers for restaurants to easily procure eco-friendly packaging. Packaging offered which will include a segment of 100% naturally biodegradable units, largely consisting of sugarcane bagasse, bamboo, palm leaf and paper solutions,” said a Zomato spokesperson. Taking charge Meanwhile, Swiggy has been running a marketplace called Swiggy Packaging Assist for over a year now. “Packaging Assist enables restaurant partners to get access to a variety of packing solutions including (but not limited to) eco-friendly packaging options made of materials such as paper and glass. Hundreds of our restaurant partners across cities have slowly started using greener packaging solutions when possible,” said a Swiggy spokesperson. Swiggy said that it took up Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for 100 tonnes of plastic a month, and will grow six times over in the next six months. Zomato and Swiggy’s rival – UberEats educates its restaurant partners about the importance of right packaging. “We firmly believe that food delivery platforms can play a major role to empower restaurants and local businesses with sustainable packaging and encourage implementation of economical, plastic free packaging / eco-friendly options,” said Uber Eats.

Zomato and Swiggy sell eco-friendly packaging to restaurants, to avoid single-use plastics

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A few states and some countries are passing laws to combat plastic waste.</li><li><keyword id="11892889" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="california" source="Orion">California</keyword> is the fourth US state that will make companies pay for packaging waste.</li></ul>The first half of 2022 has seen a wave of new policies cracking down on <keyword id="12318689" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="plastic-pollution" source="Orion">plastic pollution</keyword> in the US and countries like <keyword id="6356687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="canada" source="Orion">Canada</keyword> and <keyword id="11892747" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>. In recent weeks, California became the fourth state that will force companies to pay for cleaning up packaging waste, while Canada and India have banned the production and import of certain <keyword id="14446315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="single-use-plastic" source="Orion">single-use plastic</keyword> products. Advocates say the momentum feels like a turning point in the global fight to eliminate the eight million metric tons of plastic waste <a href="https://www.unep.org/interactives/beat-plastic-pollution/">that flows into oceans each year</a>. According to the United Nations, this is the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck every minute. The vast majority of plastic never gets recycled and ends up in landfills, in incinerators, or as litter on land and in waterways. The US <a href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26132/chapter/1">is the world's largest contributor</a> to the problem despite representing <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/">less than 5% of the global population</a>."The public is increasingly making the connection between plastic and so many other issues, which is expanding the coalition of groups and individuals who care deeply about this," Anja Brandon, a US plastics-policy analyst at the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, said. "That, in turn, is expanding the number of policymakers who recognize plastic pollution as critically important." Brandon said those connections include how plastic is made from the fossil fuels that drive the climate crisis. Local governments in the US often build plastic-manufacturing plants, landfills, and incinerators <a href="https://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2022/05/tishman-environment-and-design-centers-work-reveals-most-incinerators-pollute-low-income-and-communities-of-color-and-worsen-climate-change/">in marginalized communities</a>, which then disproportionately expose these communities to pollution. Researchers are also discovering tiny particles of plastic — known as microplastics — <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-detected-in-human-blood-180979826/">in human blood</a> and stool, raising questions about potential health effects.The <keyword id="11896309" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sustainability" source="Orion">sustainability</keyword> push has led some big brands and plastic makers to promise to make more recyclable or compostable packaging and to channel money toward local infrastructure so producers can get their materials back and reuse them. "We're investing in new technology to make sure the percent of recycled content in packaging increases and designing things to be lighter," Jen Ronk, the senior sustainability manager at Dow North America Packaging &amp; Specialty Plastics, said. The company <a href="http://www.businessfor2030.org/dow">also pledged to spend more than $1 billion</a> on efforts to manage plastic waste. Here's a rundown of the latest action: <h2>California</h2>On June 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB54">signed the most aggressive restrictions</a> on plastic in the country into law. By 2032, producers must use 25% less plastic in packaging for items like shampoo, food containers, and cups. Ocean Conservancy estimates that this provision alone will <a href="https://oceanconservancy.org/news/sb54-california-righting-ship-leading-u-s-ocean-plastic-pollution-crisis/">reduce plastic production by 23 million tons</a>, or 26 times the weight of the Golden Gate Bridge. By the same date, at least 65% of plastic must be recycled, a major jump from the <a href="https://sd26.senate.ca.gov/index.php/news/press-release/senator-allen-introduces-bill-phase-out-unsustainable-single-use-plastics">less than 15% that is recycled today</a>. "We know that to reduce the plastic-pollution crisis, we have to make less in the first place and reuse more through a circular economy," Brandon said, adding that the <keyword id="14446313" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="california-law" source="Orion">California law</keyword> is the first to address both sides of that equation. Plastic makers will pay $5 billion into a state fund to mitigate the environmental and health impacts of pollution from their products, as well. The industry will pay for collecting, sorting, and recycling waste through a fee on packaging, which will shift the burden away from taxpayers who now fund municipal-waste management. That policy, known as extended-producer responsibility, has picked up steam over the last year as Maine, Oregon, and most recently <keyword id="11918419" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado" source="Orion">Colorado</keyword>, passed similar legislation. <h2>Colorado </h2>In June, the state passed its own extended-producer responsibility law that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/colorado-to-tax-bottles-and-packaging-for-recycling-2022-6">slaps a fee on packaging such as bottles, food wrappers, and cardboard</a> to help fund recycling and keep waste out of landfills. Colorado's statewide <a href="https://cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-recycling-totals">recycling rate for all materials is 15%</a>, less than half the national average of 32%. The law itself doesn't set mandatory recycling targets, but brands and packaging makers have to develop some for 2030 after they form a nonprofit to run the new recycling program.The law got rare public endorsements from big business, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Walmart. They joined forces with environmental groups like Recycle Colorado, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Sierra Club. <h2>Canada</h2><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/reduce-plastic-waste/single-use-plastic-guidance.html">On June 22, the government announced</a> it would ban companies from making and importing certain single-use plastics by the end of the year as part of a sweeping effort to fight pollution and the climate crisis.Most plastic grocery bags, silverware, and straws fall under the ban, with a few exceptions for medical needs. According to the government, Canadians throw away more than 3 million tons of plastic waste every year and the country only recycles about 9% of it. "Companies don't make Canada-specific packaging or US-state specific packaging," Brandon said. "They are trying to maximize efficiency in a globalized supply chain, so these policies will have far-reaching ripple effects."<h2>India </h2>On July 1, India's government announced a ban on single-use plastics covering 19 items that are most likely to wind up as litter, such as straws, cups, and some disposable bags. The ban makes it illegal to make or import these products.According to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/01/1109476072/india-plastics-ban-begins">the Associated Press</a>, thousands of other plastic items aren't covered, though the federal government has set recycling targets for manufacturers. According to its federal pollution watchdog, India generated more than 4.1 million metric tons of plastic waste in 2020. This decade the country is also trying to reduce the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product — known as carbon intensity — by 45%. Curbing plastic manufacturing can help India meet that target, said advocates of the ban.

Fighting our plastic problem: Bans and recycling mandates gain steam in the US and abroad

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6391475" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="coca-cola">Coca-Cola</keyword> has failed to meet many of its internal <keyword id="49089" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sustainability">sustainability</keyword> targets, a report by the Changing Markets Foundation found.</li><li>The drinks giant pledged in 1990 to make its bottles from 25% recycled <keyword id="34567" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="plastic">plastic</keyword> – but 30 years later, this target hasn’t been met.</li><li><keyword id="47638" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mars">Mars</keyword> promises to make 30% of its plastic <keyword id="6359921" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="packaging">packaging</keyword> from recycled content by 2025 through unproven chemical <keyword id="114175" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="recycling">recycling</keyword>, which has severe climate consequences, the report said.</li><li>Coca-Cola told Business Insider it was committed to doing "more, faster," and said its missed recycling target was an "an opportunity to learn." Mars said it was "disappointed in the report and its assertions that Mars is not addressing this challenge."</li></ul>In 1990, Coca-Cola set itself a target of selling drinks in bottles made from 25% recycled plastic — but even after reducing that target and pushing back the deadline, its bottles still only contain 10% recycled plastic, 30 years later. The drinks giant, which is the world's largest plastic polluter, producing 2.9 million metric tons of plastic packaging every year, has failed to meet many of its internal sustainability promises, and has opposed new environmental laws, a report by the Changing Markets Foundation published on Thursday found.The foundation, which campaigns for sustainability within organizations, also found that some companies including food manufacturer Mars Incorporated rely heavily on unproven chemical recycling, which changes the chemical structure of used plastic so it replicates the properties of unused plastic. The report described this fast-growing alternative to traditional mechanical recycling as "a false solution" that can further damage the <keyword id="6356826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ENVIRONMENT">environment</keyword>.<a href="https://www.mars.com/sustainability-plan/healthy-planet/sustainable-packaging">Mars vowed in 2019 </a>to make 30% of its plastic packaging from recycled content by 2025 – but its packaging currently contains zero recycled content, the report said. The company says <a href="https://www.mars.com/sustainability-plan/healthy-planet/sustainable-packaging">on its website</a> the goal is "dependent on advancement of chemical recycling at pace," suggesting that if it can't scale up its chemical recycling facilities quickly enough, it may not be able to meet the target.Mars also commits to making all of its plastic packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025, but currently this figure is only 19%. The report argues that, even if it reached 100%, many companies don't address the fact that "recyclable" products are not ultimately recycled. A lot of the plastic in the ocean is technically recyclable, it said.The report analyzed voluntary commitments from the 10 biggest plastic polluters: Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mars Incorporated, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, <keyword id="54572" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="PepsiCo">PepsiCo</keyword>, Perfetti Van Melle, Procter &amp; Gamble, and Unilever. The Foundation researched how environmentally friendly the companies' sustainability policies actually are, such as whether they are eradicating single-use plastics by simply replacing them with other single-use materials. For example, Coca-Cola pledged to stop using plastic straws by 2025, and Mars by 2020, but both appear to just be replacing these with other single-use materials such as paper, the report said.<h3>False promises "easily warped, reframed, or ignored"</h3>The foundation found varying levels of commitment between the companies, but concluded that, overall, they had heavily publicized a few small token projects to portray an illusion of sustainability. The report described this as "marketing greenwashing."The paper argued that "regardless of how ambitious voluntary commitments sound, most companies regard them as just paper promises, easily warped, reframed, or ignored while conveniently generating favorable headlines."Even when companies introduce sustainable practices, they often limit them to certain countries, the report said. Coca-Cola lobbied extensively against plans for a Scottish bottle deposit return scheme — where customers pay a small deposit on plastic bottles and are paid back when the bottles are returned — before changing its stance after heavy press backlash.It produces one in five plastic bottles in the world and continues to fight against the introduction of the system in Kenya and the US state of Georgia, the report said.PepsiCo also plans to make 50% of its plastic packaging from recycled materials in the EU by 2030, but has set a global target of only 25% by 2025, the report found.The foundation also questioned the effectiveness of group initiatives, especially those founded by companies themselves.Nearly 50 companies, including oil and gas companies, retailers, and consumer goods firms, have joined The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, founded in 2019. These members have committed $1.5 billion to the groups research, but invested more than 100 times this amount – $186 billion – into new petrochemical facilities between 2010 and 2017, and over a quarter of members generate an annual turnover of more than $45 billion, the report said.<h3>Coca-Cola promises to learn from missed targets</h3>A Coca-Cola spokesperson said the company is committed to do "more, faster" so that the business grows in the right way, and described missing its target to make its bottles from 25% recycled plastics as "an opportunity to learn."The company said it is "confident" about its goals to collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one it sells by 2030, make its packaging 100% recyclable by 2025, and use 50% recycled material in its bottles and cans by 2030. Coca-Cola says it will achieve the goals by learning from past experience and engaging in partnerships such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which aims to develop what it calls a "circular economy" by reducing waste in product design and manufacturing.It added that bottles with 100% recycled plastic are currently available in 18 markets around the world, and that recently the local Coca-Cola businesses in Norway and Netherlands announced they are now using 100% recycled PET across their portfolio. In Great Britain, the Coca-Cola is preparing to announce that it has reached 50% recycled PET across its packaging, it said.A Mars spokesperson said the company is "disappointed in the report and its assertions that Mars is not addressing this challenge.""Mars is committed to playing our role in delivering more sustainable packaging and advancing our Circular Packaging Plan. This is focused on reducing unnecessary packaging, redesigning the remainder for circularity, and investing to close the loop to help scale up waste management infrastructure."Mars said that it is "is absolutely committed to addressing this issue.""We have not advocated for the use of just one single strategy to address the challenge. Further, Mars is publicly on record regarding our support for extended producer responsibility schemes as a critical piece in addressing the challenge. Our participation in membership organizations is illustrative of this point: we can't tackle this issue alone. The depth of the challenge demands partnership with other businesses, community and government to reduce packaging, to drive the system change required and maximize the collection, sorting and recycling of materials."PepsiCo did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Mars accused of 'warping, reframing, or ignoring' environmental commitments in major sustainability report

<ul><li>Food and beverages multinationals — Coca Cola, Nestlé, <keyword id="54572" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="PepsiCo">Pepsico</keyword> — are the top three polluters in <keyword id="115238" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Plastic-waste">plastic waste</keyword>, globally. </li><li>Of a total of over 475,000 pieces of plastic collected from 50 countries, 19,904 plastic pieces were of Coca Cola, Nestle and PepsiCo. </li><li>Coca Cola has been marked as the worst company for <keyword id="1820144" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="plastic-pollution">plastic pollution</keyword> for the second consecutive year — accounting for 11,732 pieces of waste plastic across 37 countries. </li><li>Studies estimate that nearly 500 billion plastic bottles will be sold next year and merely 45 billion will be recycled.</li></ul>Food and beverages multinationals — Coca Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo — are the top three <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/10/29/coca-cola-named-the-worlds-most-polluting-brand-in-plastic-waste-audit/#3ffbb41674e0">polluters in plastic waste</a>, globally. According to an annual audit conducted by environmental group Break Free From Plastic, of the total of over 475,000 pieces of plastic collected from 50 countries, 19,904 plastic pieces belonged to Coca Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo. The environment group collected plastic waste from beaches, streets and waterways. Other plastic polluters include Unilever, Mars and Colgate Palmolive. In fact, Coca Cola has been marked as the worst company for plastic pollution for the second consecutive year — accounting for 11,732 pieces of waste plastic across 37 countries. “Anytime our packaging ends up in our oceans — or anywhere that it doesn’t belong — is unacceptable to us. In partnership with others, we are working to address this critical global issue, both to help turn off the tap in terms of plastic waste entering our oceans and to help clean up the existing pollution,” Coca Cola <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution/">told</a> The Intercept. Coca-Cola partnered with Dr Pepper and PepsiCo to announce a plastic recycling programme — ‘Every Bottle Back’ — to cut down on the use of new plastic and improve the quality of recycled plastics. The move is aimed to ensure awareness that the bottles are 100% recyclable and can be transformed into new bottles. The audit aims to clean public places off plastic along with identifying the companies that make the most of it. According to studies, every minute there are over a million plastic bottles made and most of them are not recycled. It estimates that nearly 500 billion plastic bottles will be sold next year and merely 45 billion will be recycled. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/policy/news/no-plastic-ban-in-india-with-plans-to-eliminate-single-use-plastic-by-2022/articleshow/71403214.cms">India won’t be banning plastic — for now</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/flipkart-and-air-india-become-the-first-in-their-sectors-to-begin-the-fight-against-plastic/articleshow/70894061.cms">Flipkart and Air India become the first in their sectors to begin the fight against plastic</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/mount-everest-will-turn-into-a-plastic-free-zone-by-2020-as-nepal-bans-it/articleshow/70780916.cms">Mount Everest will turn into a plastic-free zone by 2020 as Nepal bans it</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Companies that prioritize low-waste or zero plastic use boomed alongside single-use plastics during COVID-19.</li><li><keyword id="11223427" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blueland">Blueland</keyword>, a green cleaning products maker, grew 800% year-over-year during COVID-19.</li><li>These eco-friendly companies predict this growth will continue.</li></ul>The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-plastic-recycling/">demand for single-use plastic-based products</a> like takeout containers has skyrocketed throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but as this plastic use rises, so have sales for companies focused on low waste and the elimination of unnecessary plastic use.<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-single-use-plastics-environmentalists/">According to a report by CBS</a> in August, environmentalists are concerned by this uptick in single-use plastics and plastic waste during the global coronavirus crisis. A microplastics expert has even gone as far as to say that this resulting damage could "last forever," <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54265590">according to a report by BBC published in September 2020.</a>During this time, zero-waste traditionalists also started using plastic again. This includes Lauren Singer, CEO of Package Free Shop and a self-proclaimed "<keyword id="72341" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Zero-Waste">zero waste</keyword> environmental activist," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/trashisfortossers/">according to her Instagram profile</a>, who published a 10-slide Instagram post in March 2020 describing why she decided to purchase plastic items in late March as the coronavirus pandemic started taking hold of the US."For eight years, I have lived a zero-waste lifestyle, meaning I have not sent anything to landfill and, over that time, I have made every effort to be a near-perfect pillar of my values," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-AZdAOF9Lw/">Singer wrote in her Instagram post</a>. "But two weeks ago, when the reality of COVID-19 set in, I made some choices that went against the way I have lived my life for almost a decade."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-women-leading-making-big-money-zero-waste-movement?r=bc-sub">3 women leading the zero-waste movement reveal how they're managing to change the world while making a profit</a>Like Singer, several companies also started shifting towards <keyword id="6599998" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="single-use-plastic">single-use plastic</keyword> items again. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-reusable-cups-coronavirus-fear-2020-3">Starbucks, for example, stopped accepting the use</a> of reusable cups, and some states and cities began banning the use of reusable grocery bags in grocery stores, according to a <a href="https://www.today.com/food/states-are-banning-reusable-shopping-bags-grocery-stores-amid-coronavirus-t177736">report by Today</a>.Despite all of this single-use plastic bombardment, companies focused on decreasing waste and plastic use - like Blueland, <keyword id="11223426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ecoroots">EcoRoots</keyword>, <keyword id="10343788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="by-humankind">by Humankind</keyword>, and <keyword id="11223428" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wild-minimalist">Wild Minimalist</keyword> - started seeing an increase in sales.<h2>A surprising surge in sales<div type="image" title="Blueland's products." height="995" width="1327" msid="82479855" hostid="261"></div></h2><a href="https://www.blueland.com/">Blueland</a>, a <a href="https://blog.blueland.com/blueland-carbon-neutrality/">carbon-neutral company</a> that creates "environmentally responsible" cleaning products without single-use plastics, saw an increase in demand by over 300% in the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic's arrival in the US, according to Blueland's CEO and co-founder Sarah Paiji Yoo in an October 2020 email interview with Insider. Overall, the company has grown 800% year over year.According to Paiji Yoo, Blueland had already been seeing rapid growth before the pandemic, but this growth was then expedited with the onset of COVID-19 and the boom in both e-commerce and sustainable living. And so far, the increase in demand has stayed steady during the pandemic.Blueland has also received several certifications - including B Corp and EPA Safer Choice - to maintain its eco-friendly title and combat the trend of "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/greenwashing-is-the-latest-tourist-trap-heres-how-to-avoid-it-2017-12">greenwashing.</a>" According to Paiji Yoo, it's the company's "environmental mission" that's been allowing the company to both retain and attract new customers."While the e-commerce boom can be credited as an element of our growing audience base, our ability to maintain the business says something about people shifting their priorities to become more conscious consumers, specifically on matters of sustainable living and the benefits of planet and people-friendly products," Paiji Yoo said.Even though the company was expecting an increase in demand for its products during the coronavirus pandemic, the rapid growth caught the Blueland team by surprise."As a result, we decided to strategically double down on our direct-to-consumer channel, add a subscription model to make receiving refills seamless, and shift our timeline for a larger entry into wholesale to a later date," Paiji Yoo wrote.<h2>Why sustainability-focused companies grew</h2><h2><div type="image" title="EcoRoots Produce Bags" height="1666" width="2223" msid="82479857" hostid="261"></div></h2><a href="https://byhumankind.com/">By Humankind </a> - a carbon-neutral personal care products maker that also doesn't use single-use plastics - doesn't attribute its growth amid the coronavirus pandemic to just one aspect. "Maybe people are looking for meaning in new places," By Humankind's co-founder and CEO Brian Bushell wrote in an email interview with Insider in November 2020. "Who knows? The important thing is, it's happening."By Humankind, which is almost two years old, has been growing five times year-over-year pre-coronavirus, and this growth did not drop off during the pandemic."Because we're a small company, we're able to be nimble and create products where we see customer demand while being true to the mission to eliminate single-use plastic," Bushell wrote.This includes the roll-out of its plastic-free moisturizing hand sanitizer, which was launched in April 2020."When the pandemic arrived and with it the spike in demand for hand sanitizer that won't dry your hands, we accelerated our launch timeline for our hand sanitizer ... ahead of some of the other products we're working on to meet demand," Bushell wrote.According to Bushell, the plastic-free hand sanitizer bottles were also launched in response to the growing number of small sanitizer bottles that were being used and tossed. However, the company's hand soap has remained a consumer favorite.<a href="https://ecoroots.us/">EcoRoots </a>- a zero-waste company that sells products with sustainable packaging - also saw an increase in sales for its eco-friendly soaps, as well as its beauty products, EcoRoots' co-founder Antonia Pitica told Business Insider in an email interview in November 2020. However, sales for the company's reusable coffee cups dropped.Pitica attributes this increase in demand to elements like the growth of the zero waste movement and conscious shopping, marketing, and the explosion of online shopping, especially for personal care items.But like other companies across all industries, EcoRoots ran into order fulfillment issues this year, specifically with shipping and delivery problems."We have to place orders ahead of time, sometimes months ahead, to be able to satisfy the demand, and that puts a lot of pressure on cashflow," Pitica wrote. "USPS is and will continue to be the e-commerce business's biggest proverbial Achilles heel as this transition to online shopping keeps growing."<h2>Growth so big, a company had to move facilities</h2><div type="image" title="By Humankind." height="1405" width="1874" msid="82479859" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://wildminimalist.com/">Wild Minimalist </a>- another online plastic-free and sustainability-focused business that also has a brick and mortar store in California - "essentially doubled overnight," Wild Minimalist co-founder Max Cameron told Business Insider in an interview in October 2020.Wild Minimalist had been at least doubling its growth annually since it was founded in 2017, but sales during the coronavirus pandemic allowed the company to hit its 2020 targets almost immediately."As soon as we got into April 2020, [we got to] the point where we had to move into a new facility that was triple the size because we had to hold more inventory and the demand was increasing," Cameron said. During this time, the company started struggling to meet orders due to delays and backlogs, which also happened in part because of supply chain issues. However, this initial boom in sales has since tapered off and "come back down to manageable levels," according to Cameron.During this time of growth, Wild Minimalist saw a specific uptick in sales of its cleaning tools and "food preservation product line" as more people started grocery shopping more and eating out at restaurants less. To accommodate this change in purchasing behavior, the company began looking into extending its product line.Demand for certain products stayed so strong throughout COVID-19, Wild Minimalist recently "signed long-term agreements with some vendors to guarantee increased supply," Cameron told Insider in May."Another thing that's been really important for us is picking up new vendors that are owned by [people who are] Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and we've heard that loud and clear from our customer base," Cameron continued.<h2>Growth is not dependent on the pandemic</h2><div type="image" title="By Humankind." height="1405" width="1874" msid="82479862" hostid="261"></div>"I think that as the movement grows, larger companies will probably start re-thinking their goals, their ideal target customers, and the ways that they create new products," Pitica wrote. "And frankly, it was about time for the old ways of doing business to change."The companies agree that this boom in sales isn't just a COVID-19-related trend and that demand for sustainable, eco-friendly products will not drop off after the coronavirus pandemic."People will continue to clean more frequently and consciously, and there has been a permanent acceleration to e-commerce for buying cleaning products," Paiji Yoo wrote. "For Blueland specifically, we feel well-positioned for long-term success beyond the pandemic, as we're continuing to build a strong foundation for the business that will benefit us post-COVID."

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<ul><li>The world has produced over 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste since 1950.</li><li>Every Indian on an average consumes 11 kgs of plastic per year. </li><li>India also planning to join the “Clean Marine Ecosystem”.</li></ul>Plastic is a growing concern not only for India but the whole world. Disposal and recycling of single-use plastic items such as polythene bags and containers are a major concern. Since the 1950s, an estimated 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2018/03/03/the-known-unknowns-of-plastic-pollution">produced</a>, of which an estimated 9% has been recycled and another 12% of plastic waste has been incinerated. India was the global host of the <keyword id="18996" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="World-Environment-Day">World Environment Day</keyword> this year. The country, which is in the 75th year of its independence, pledged to eliminate the use of all single-use-plastic items like straws, plastic bags and water bottles, by the year 2022. 
 
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Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan, on the occasion of the World Environment Day, said - "We make a solemn pledge that we will eliminate all single-use plastics from our country." This statement has also shed some light on the PM’s idea of new India by the year 2022. 
 
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]]></cdata></div> <keyword id="6354642" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Modi">Modi</keyword> in his speech mentioned that India is preparing to join the “Clean Sea Campaign” and make its contribution towards saving the world's oceans. "Plastic threatens to become a menace to humanity. A lot of it never makes it to the recycling stations”, he said. The annual average per capita <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/the-good-earth/by-2022-india-vows-to-stop-single-use-plastics/articleshow/64471467.cms">consumption of plastic in India</a> is at 11 kg as against the global average of 28 kg. The large amount of plastic waste the world produces inevitably enters the environment, with <a href="https://globalnomadic.com/turning-rubbish-into-money-environmental-innovation-leads-the-way/">studies</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016648014004225?via%3Dihub">suggesting</a> that the bodies of 90% of seabirds contain plastic debris.

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