
What is it?
The India Plastics Pact is an ambitious, collaborative initiative that is bringing together businesses, governments and NGOs to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics in their value chain.
The Pact aims to transform the current linear plastics system into a circular plastics economy that will:
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Reduce the use of problematic plastics in India
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Retain valuable materials in the economy for use in other products
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Generate jobs, investment and opportunities in the plastics system in India
The India Plastics Pact aims to promote public-private collaborations that enable solutions to eliminate the plastic waste problem in India and bring innovation to the way plastic is designed, used and reused.
The vision, targets and ambition of the India Plastics Pact are aligned with the principles of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Initiative towards a circular economy.
Our Vision
A world where plastic is valued and doesn’t pollute the environment
How will it work?

The Pact is creating a unified national framework for a circular economy for plastics with aligned targets and associated reporting by the plastic businesses in India

All plastic-packaging business and other stakeholders in the value chain support to join a set of ambitious, time-bound targets, ensuring that this collaboration will drive significant change to the plastic waste problem in India by 2030

It is a platform for collaboration, learning and tangible action towards plastic waste problem

The India Plastics Pact will also build on the positive work started by other initiatives to tackle the plastic waste problem in India and help scale up and disseminate good practices

*These would only include compostable plastics with all the following properties:
- do not leave any microplastic residue,
- used in closed-loop and controlled systems with sufficient infrastructure available or fit-for-purpose applications, and
- properly labelled as ‘Home’ or ‘Industrial’ compostable
Supporting the Plastics Pact
The Confederation of Indian Industry calls on stakeholders from across the plastics value chain to join, support, and take steps towards a circular plastics economy. The India Plastics Pact is part of the Global Plastics Pact network, sharing the same vision: to change the way plastics are designed, used, and reused to transition to a circular economy where plastics never become waste.