Top FMCG firms, BCCI to take pledge to cut carbon footprint, plastic use

About six companies such as ITC, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) and Haldiram, besides the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), will announce globally cutting down on their carbon footprint and plastic use at an event to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on World Environment Day, June 5. 

India will be the global host this year for World Environment Day, with the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”. 

As part of this, the government has asked these consumer-facing companies to take the pledge.

While P&G is likely to announce phasing out the plastic packaging of its Pampers diapers