Only about 10% of all plastic produced is recycled and half of the plastic we use such as packaging or a plastic straw are used for an average of 12-15 minutes. Team Beyondesign stresses the importance of alternative materials to ensure sustainable packaging
Keeping up with the magazine’s focus on promoting sustainability, the cover story of the July issue of PrintWeek highlights the work EPL has been doing towards sustainability.
This year’s R Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award has been bestowed on Weldon Celloplast’s director Harveer Sahni, the first Indian to be a recipient of the award.
After a two-day meeting of the GST Council that concluded in Chandigarh on 29 June, Nirmala Sitharaman announced several tax rate changes. The GST rate changes on a large number of goods and services will be effective from 18 July.
From 1 July, India imposed a ban on manufacturing, importing, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of identified single-use plastic (SUP) items. As per the ministry of environment, forest and climate change these include low utility and high littering potential, all across the country.