New Delhi, March 7 -- Taking stock of the household use of packaging materials, a new research report has quantified the extent of plastic pollution caused by household consumption.

With the sale of 120 million plastic milk pouches on a daily basis, 8.68 billion servings of instant noodles on an annual basis, sale of 26.8 billion plastic detergent packets annually and the use of 3.3 billion cooking oil plastic packets, the research conducted by Delhi-based Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group has thrown light on the consumer behaviour behind this seemingly never-ending demand for plastics in India's FMCG sector.

The report titled Home Truths - A Deep-Dive into 5 Common Single-Use Plastics in Our Household is authored by Nidhi...