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In India flexible packaging is not only larger in value terms than fibre-based packaging but its proponents also claim that it is growing faster than all other types of packaging. While this may be true,  the recycling of plastic packaging and in fact all types of packaging and waste is neither organised nor efficient, notwithstanding the myth that, “everything in India is recycled either because it is re-used or because there are so many poor people who work as scanvengers and refuse collectors and sell the waste for a living.” In fact, as the Swedish packaging consultant Dr. Anders Soras recently explained in New Delhi, “Packaging recycling cannot be left to the end users. The collection and recycling of packaging has to be the industry’s work for it to be either efficient or effective.” We know for instance, that less than 20% of the waste paper in India reaches the paper mills for recyling. ...cont´d

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