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Beverage industry plea to reconsider norms for recycling PET bottles
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Saturday, 18 January, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Indian beverage industry has urged the Union Government to reconsider the new norms for recycling PET bottles, which shall come into force from April 1, 2025.
According to industry insiders, a meeting in this regard was held recently in which the Government representatives were sympathetic towards the point of view presented by the industry.
And, the industry hopes that
implementation of the new norms, which calls for recycling of the PET bottles to be used again in beverages industry, may get deferred.
As per the regulations notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, beverage makers will need to ensure 30 per cent of recycled plastic use for Category-1 packaging, which is defined as rigid plastics and includes PET bottles.
Industry insiders say that there is lack of technological know how and no infrastructure to produce food grade recycled plastic in such a large scale.
The task of using 30% recycled PET bottles is too high to achieve, even developed economies like in the European Union have made plans to achieve this target by 2030.
Further, some experts opined that using recycled plastic material for food packaging may lead to risk of contamination, as presently the industry uses virgin plastic for the purpose of bottling.
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