Today on the 45th World Environment Day, the Indian Beauty & Hygiene Association (IBHA) has reported successful implementation of its plastic waste management project in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai.The project was launched in 2014, under a task force of IBHA members - L'Oreal, Godrej, HUL, Nivea, Dabur, Himalaya, ITC, J & J, P & G, Wipro, Marico, Colgate, Hygiene Research Institute, and is now looking at expanding this project to other cities.The 'zero-waste' plastic management project focuses on collecting, segregating and recycling post-consumer use multi-layered plastics (MLP), which are considered to be difficult to collect and recycle. Multi-layered plastics are most commonly found in packaging of food packets, shampoo sachets, among others. Under this initiative, the project has successfully collected and recycled around 55 tonnes of MLPs in these cities."While several steps have been taken over the years to recycle post-consumer solid plastic waste, what ..
