
What is it?
The India Plastics Pact is an ambitious, collaborative initiative that aims to bring 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 circular economy principles of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy.
Why does India need a Plastics Pact?
million tonnes of plastic waste India generates annually
plastic waste goes uncollected
all plastics produced in India are used for packaging, majority of them being single-use
How will it work?


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



Supporting the Plastics Pact
WWF India and CII call on stakeholders from across the plastics value chain to join, support and take steps towards a circular economy. The India Plastics Pact will align with Plastics Pacts around the world, which share the same overarching vision: to change the way plastics are designed, used, and reused to transition to a circular economy where plastics never become waste.