Mother Dairy to recycle 832 tonnes of plastic by March 2020

Mother Dairy, a leading milk supplier in Delhi-NCR, on Wednesday said it will recycle 832 tonnes of plastic by March next year as part of its efforts to protect environment.

"To tackle with the burgeoning menace of post-consumer plastic waste, Mother Dairy debuted its plastic waste collection and recycling initiative in Maharashtra in June 2018 by rolling out the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme," it said in a statement.

Mother Dairy, with the help of a Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO), has collected and recycled around 1,073 tonnes of plastic waste till May 2019. This quantity includes around 183 tonnes of multi-layered packaging (MLP) and 890 tonnes of non-multi-layered packaging.

The company said it is implementing 100 EPR in Maharashtra and now wants to replicate the success of EPR by spearheading the programme on a pan-India basis.

"Mother Dairy, through leading PROs, will collect and recycle plastic waste across 25 key states of its operations and is targeting to recycle around 60 per cent of the total MLP used, i.e, about 832 tonnes by March 2020," it added.

This recycling effort has already been initiated in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Bihar.

Mother Dairy's MD Sangram Chaudhary said: "Consumers opting for our alternative options are leaving a green footprint every day. However, some of the products from our company's portfolio involves recyclable plastic packaging of both forms MLP and non-MLP and being a responsible organisation, Mother Dairy has acquired central registration for brand owner under Central Pollution Control Board, which is in line with the plastic waste management (Amendment) Rule, 2018."