NEW DELHI, Oct. 5 -- Mother Dairy, one of India's largest milk producers, on Wednesday said it would collect and recycle 60 per cent of the multi-layered packaging (MLP) (i.e around 832 tonnes of plastic) used by the company from 25 states.
In a statement issued here, Mother Dairy said this would be in addition to 1073 tonnes of plastic it had already collected and recycled in Maharashtra in May this year. This was done with the help of a producer responsibility organisation (PRO). The quantity of plastic recycled included 890 tonnes of non-MLP and 183 tonnes of MLP, it said. The initiative rolled out in June last year was a part of an extended producer responsibility (EPR) took up by Mother Dairy. It claimed that as of now it was implemen...