Is India ready for sustainable packaging? This, and more were discussed during the PrintWeek-DIC India webinar held on 23 February. The online event was attended by 218 delegates across the packaging value chain. (Clockwise) MTR’s Amit Saurkar, Uflex’s Amit Shah, SB Packagings’ Amit Banga and DIC’s Andrew Brown
With brands around the globe laying out the frameworks to meet their corporate social responsibility goals and the discourse around the merits and demerits of plastics, sustainable packaging has become a prime focus for a range of material manufacturers and printers in the past decade or so.
However, the pathway to achieving a circular economy has its own set of challenges, especially in a country like India, where a range of waste management processes, such as the extended producer’s responsibility model is yet to gain traction. Amit Banga of SB Packagings said, “The government is advocating sustainability.