ban on plastic packaging

The list of outlawed plastics includes single-use drink stirrers, plastic cotton buds, most plastic meat trays, polystyrene takeaway packaging for food and beverages, foam takeaway containers or some instant noodle cups, and plastics with additives which make them fragment into micro-plastics.

“On average, every year each New Zealander sends about 750kgs of waste to landfill. Some products can’t be recycled and are unnecessary,” Environment Minister David Parker said on Friday.  

Chuk, the flagship brand of Yash Pakka Limited, one of the pioneers in the sustainable packaging industry since the past 40 years, has seen about 50% year-on-year growth in terms of revenue. Anticipating a surge in demand since the draft notification of the ban was released by the government in March 2021, production was ramped up last October and 30% additional capacity was added to the production unit in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The production in FY2020-21 was 10 tonne per day, which was increased to 14 tonne per day in FY2021-22, a 40% increase in production on a per day basis.