New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Indian industries, the government, polluters and pollution management companies need to align in their thinking in order to make India's waste management circular, according to Girish Ramesh Luthra, chairman of the Luthra Group.

"This alignment is difficult because everyone has their own agenda. The government has to look into some policies that are more friendly towards green recycling and not on paper alone. There has to be will at all scales, right from municipalities, to industries to government in the state and Centre," said Luthra, speaking at the Mint Sustainability Summit 2025.

The reason that this is happening, according to Luthra is that tenders for solutions for waste management are often at the lowest l...