May
10
/ 2025
Single-use food and beverage packaging forms more than 84% of the plastic waste in the eco-sensitive Himalayan region, an anti-waste collective of NGOs has found.
According to the Zero Waste Himalaya Alliance, about 70% of the plastics collected from across the Himalayan belt from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh are non-recyclable and have no market value.
The GAIA-Asia Pacific and Break Free supported the meeting From Plastic, two global networks “committed to ending plastic pollution by championing real solutions”.