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A big discussion on the future of sustainability in the plastics sector comes to London on 21 September at the sixth international Plasticity Forum, where the design community will learn how to help client brands, and products they are developing, become part of a worldwide movement working towards creating a circular economy in which waste is a redundant concept.

What do most folks in India do with PET mineral water bottles after using up the contents? They either dump it in a trash bin (if there’s one close by) or keep it for reuse, which is quite hazardous for health. Biocrux India aims to change this process with its 360° solution for plastic waste which is a recycling mechanism  featuring a compact bottle crusher that converts PET bottles into flakes to be used as raw material for making resin. This recycled resin can then be used for manufacturing various plastic products like trash bins, toilet cabins and even paint among others.

Tetra Pak, the world’s leading packaging and processing solutions provider, has been awarded the reputed Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2016 for its work in establishing a sustainable collection and recycling ecosystem for used Tetra Pak cartons. The Golden Peacock Award, a global benchmark of corporate excellence, underlines Tetra Pak’s responsible waste management and recycling practices.

When two Indian professionals from Silicon Valley in California, United States, decided to return home to set up an enterprise of their own, it was not the usual tech firm offering solutions to megabuck B2B enterprises that they had in mind. Instead, they launched Banyan Nation in 2013, an organization dedicated to recycling plastic waste and churning out top grade and more durable plastic pallets. Selling top grade recycled plastic pallets wasn’t their only objective; rather, setting up a sustainable waste plastic recycling system was what they wanted to do and they succeeded in doing so with a lot of value for the Indian plastic recycling industry.

Unilever has reached a new industry-leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in 70 countries, including factories, warehouses, distribution centres and offices. Having identified the different non-hazardous waste streams in its operations Unilever has now found alternative routes for the waste from these sites.

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America and one of the discoverers of electricity, once said, “Beer is the proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson said that one can measure the quality of a democracy by the affordability of its beer. Fittingly, in the pursuit of happiness and the exercise of democracy, beer sales in India posted a 11% volume growth this year. The hot summer of 2015, the rising prices of competing liquors, and a tougher stand by the government on illegal spirits and country liquor further spurred the growth of branded beer.