Some of the cafes that are popping up around Chennai have quite understood the assignment. “Sugarcane pulp, which is the bagasse packaging, has been on the rise,” says Pradeep Sekar, who is running Plastic Free Madras, an eco-friendly packaging business in Chennai. “The market for sustainable packaging is blowing up,” says Heerr, founder of WhatAbout Sustainable Packaging, a start-up in …
BENGALURU : Enterprise e-commerce unicorn Moglix has acquired Uttarakhand-based Khatema Fibres Ltd, a manufacturer of eco-friendly paper products, for approximately ₹80 crore, as part of its strategy to bolster its sustainable packaging portfolio and cement its leadership in the industrial procurement space. The deal, announced by Moglix founder and CEO Rahul Garg, adds a suite of specialty packaging products—including high-strength …
This week the federal government joined an international agreement to recycle or reuse 100 per cent of plastic waste by 2040, putting an end to plastic pollution. The recent collapse of the soft plastics recycling scheme is further proof that plastic recycling is a broken system. Australia's plastic recycling bottleneck Photo shows Bales of plastic waste next to a bobcat …