Presented by:
PLASTIC WASTE IN INDIA SHAILENDRA SINGH
AN OVERVIEW Founder & CEO
Sustain Mantra
Plastic Consumption Growth In India
Global Overview of Plastic Consumption & Waste Generation
Source : AIPMA webinar/ Breaking the Plastic Wave Report
Plastics the “Hero or Villain”?
Raised the question & debate again on what is “ single use plastics”?
Is Plastics the villain, or how we handle & dispose of the plastic waste that is the culprit?
Plastic Waste in INDIA
• Plastic waste generation in India was around 9.4
million tonnes.year−1 in 2019.
• Global generation rate of more than 380 million
tonnes.year−1 in 2019. Thus, India’s contribution was
around 3.1% of the global plastic waste generation.
• Richer states like Goa and Delhi produce as much
as 60 grams and 37 grams per capita per
day respectively – against a national average of 8
grams per capita per day.
• According to the Central Pollution Control Board in
India, 60 major India cities produce combined 25,940
tones of plastic waste every day.
• 60% Of the Waste produced is recycled in India.
Source Plastics Waste Materials
Source: http://www.cleanup.org.au/rubbishreport06/sources_rubbish.html
Challenges for Plastic Waste Management Globally
Plastic wastage is By 2040, there will be 1.3 Only 14% of the world’s Plastic wastage is
growing at an annual billion tones of plastic plastic waste is recycled. growing at an annual
rate of 9% globally. wastes present in the rate of 9%.
environment globally.
75% of all plastic Norway has the
50% of all plastics produced has highest PET
produced each year are About 500 billion single-use become waste. recycling rate of
single-use. plastic bags are used 97%
worldwide every year.
Every single person uses The number of plastic bottles About 91% of plastic is not
more than 700 plastic bags used worldwide per day exceeds recycled.
per year. 100 million.
What are the Issues to really work on?
LITTERING
NEEDS BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE IN SOCIETY
LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE
URGENT NEED TO CREATE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT URBAN/RURAL
Failure to collect waste: The real issue?
Garbage Vans cannot reach in narrow by lanes of slums, where
nearly 40% urban population lives. They ultimately dispose their
daily garbage collected in plastic bags into sewage. Municipal
Corporations can deploy bike based special purpose vehicles for
garbage collection from such difficult to reach areas.
Most of the Slums are located next to sewages. The waste
generated in these slums is dumped into sewage which causes
blockage.
Root Cause is Visible Plastic Pollution
Unique situation in India
Rag-pickers who are the “informal” stakeholders in the waste
management system are a vulnerable group in India. This unpaid and
unrecognised group form an integral part of the waste management
eco-system. The number of ragpickers in India is estimated to range
between 1.5 million to 4 million.
SAVIOURS DRIVING WASTE RECOVERY IN INDIA
RECYCLING CLUSTERS ACROSS INDIA
LOW TECH - LOW COST
ISSUES WITH ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL SECURITY
Plastics can be Circular too
• The circular economy represents an
alternative, more sustainable model to the
traditional linear economy.
• In a circular economy, we keep resources in
use for as long as possible, extract the
maximum value from them while in use,
then recover and regenerate products and
materials at the end of their service life.
• To improve the circularity of plastics, it is
essential to make sure that more and more
plastic waste is recovered and doesn’t end
up in landfill or in the environment.
• The achievement of a circular economy will
require not only innovative technical
developments, but also major economic
investment and changes to business
practice coupled with significant changes in
social behavior.
Turning Challenges in Opportunities
Plastic Waste Management
Conventional
Emerging Technology
Technology
Recycling Plasma Pyrolysis Polymer Blended
Technology Bitumen Roads
Incineration
Land filling Liquid Fuel
Plastic Waste Recycled in India
• About 60 percent of plastic waste in India is recycled, according to various
estimates.
• India's segregation and recycling system operates through an informal chain
of workers-from rag pickers who sort through waste to dealers who sell the
plastic to plants.
Plastic Waste Recycled in India
Out of the 60% of recycled plastic:
• 70% is recycled at registered facilities
• 20% is recycled by Unorganized Sector
• 10% of the plastic is recycled at home.
Source: http://cpcb.nic.in/Plastic_waste.php/
Plastics Recycling Hubs India
S.No State Location S.No State Location
1 Bihar Patna 26 Maharashtra Aurangabad
2 Chattisgarh Raipur 27 Maharashtra Solapur
3 Chattisgarh Bilaspur 28 Maharashtra Kolhapur
4 Daman Daman 29 Odisha Bhubaneswar
5 Delhi Tikri Kalan 30 Odisha Cuttack
6 Delhi Kamruddin Nagar 31 Odisha Balasore
7 Delhi Vishwas Nagar 32 Punjab Amritsar
8 Delhi Shahdara 33 Punjab Khanna
9 Gujarat Dhoraji 34 Punjab Dhuri
India has
10 Gujarat Ahmedabad 35 Punjab Ludhiana highest
11 Gujarat Bhavnagar 36 Punjab Moga
12 Karnataka Belgaum 37 Punjab Jalandhar plastics
13
14
Karnataka
Karnataka
Dharwad
Shivamogga
38 Rajasthan
39 Tamilnadu
Jaipur
Chennai
recycling
15 Karnataka Mangaluru 40 Tamilnadu Coimbatore rates
16 Karnataka Davanagere 41 Tamilnadu Madurai
17 Karnataka Tumakuru 42 Tamilnadu Tiruchirappalli
18 Karnataka Bengaluru 43 Tamilnadu Tirunelveli
19 Karnataka Mysuru 44 Tamilnadu Salem
20 Kerala Kochi 45 Telangana Hyderabad
21 Madhya Pradesh Indore 46 Uttarpradesh Kanpur
22 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 47 Uttarpradesh Meerut
23 Maharashtra Dharavi 48 Uttarpradesh Lucknow
24 Maharashtra Malegaon 49 West Bengal Kolkata
25 Maharashtra Jalgaon
Plastic Waste to Fuel
Pyrolysis Process of generating fuel oil from the waste plastics
Utilization of Plastic Waste in Road Construction
In 2015, Government of India has mandated all First 100% recycled road of 500 meters trial run stretch has
road developers in the country to use waste been laid by KK Plastic Waste Management Ltd. for Karnataka
plastic for construction within 50 km of cities State Highway Improvement Project under World Bank
with more than five lakh people. Funding.
This ‘plastic road’ technology was developed and
patented by Padmashri Professor Rajagopalan
Vasudevan, Professor of Chemistry at
Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. He
is also referred as the Plastic Road-maker of
India.
Flowchart of Plastic Bitumen Road process
