MUMBAI: Mother Dairy, one of India’s largest milk producers, has announced that it would collect and recycle 60% of the multi-layered packaging (MLP) (i.e around 832 tonnes of plastic) used by the company from 25 states.
"To tackle with the burgeoning menace of post-consumer plastic waste, Mother Dairy debuted its plastic waste collection and recycling initiative in Maharashtra in June 2018 by rolling out the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme," it said in a statement, PTI reported.
Mother Dairy, with the help of a Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO), has collected and recycled around 1,073 tonnes of plastic waste till May 2019. This quantity includes around 183 tonnes of multi-layered packaging (MLP) and 890 tonnes of non-multi-layered packaging.
The company said it is implementing 100 EPR in Maharashtra and now wants to replicate the success of EPR by spearheading the programme on a pan-India basis.
"Mother Dairy, through leading PROs, will collect and recycle plastic waste across 25 key states of its operations and is targeting to recycle around 60 per cent of the total MLP used, i.e, about 832 tonnes by March 2020," it added.
