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We are past to the various deadlines set by the government on implementation of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. If the powers that be decide to go ahead and rigidly enforce this legislation as framed, all hell will break loose.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 vide a notification dated 18 March 2016. Although some government agencies

The most important trend in the Indian economy as well as the Indian packaging industry is hardly a trend; it is more or less a fact of life – uncertain and gradual but positive expansion of the industry and the continued evolution in its use of technology and best practices.

Almost a hundred years have passed since the first corrugated box was commercially produced in England in 1917. The converting industry in India is expected to embrace several technology changes in 2016 that are likely to alter current trends and themselves become new trends in the coming years. December 2015 saw the signing by 196 countries of the Paris agreement on climate change which should compel India to raise the trajectory of its green growth. With relatively high economic growth, and as the third largest carbon emission country there is a huge opportunity as well as necessity to ramp up renewable output and to decarbonize many industrial sectors.