plastic waste neutrality

Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd said on Thursday it has set a target to recycle over 7,000 million tonnes (MT) of post-consumer used plastic waste in the current fiscal and would become ‘ plastic waste neutral’ ‘ company by the financial year 2023-24.

Becoming plastic waste neutral means that the company will collect, recycle/co-process the same amount of plastic waste which is used in its product packaging in a year.

Fast-moving consumer goods company Procter & Gamble India turned ‘plastic waste neutral’ in fiscal 2022, after it collected, processed, and recycled over 19,000 MT of post-consumer plastic packaging waste that exceeded the amount of plastic packaging used in its products sold in a year.

Several large FMCG companies including Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Dabur India and now P&G India, have achieved this feat.