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Three years after plastic waste ban, Environment Ministry allows imported PET bottles for processsing -Jacob Koshy

-The Hindu Decision was taken after representations from industries which process waste that there was too little waste for them After banning the import of plastic waste in 2019, the Environment Ministry has permitted PET Bottles, as plastic waste, to be imported for processing. The decision to rollback the ban was taken last year after representations by several industries in the business of processing waste said there was too little waste available for them in India and this was causing them financial losses. An expert committee of the Environment Ministry, last December, had recommended that firms who had applied for permission could import PET Flakes/Bottles up to 50% of their production capacity. Polyethylene Terephthalate bottles are a category of plastic of which nearly 90% of the domestic supply is already recycled. However, this reprieve has not gone down well with environmentalist groups. On Wednesday however, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, a Union Commerce Ministry held a consultative meeting of representatives from the Union Environment Ministry and environmentalist organisation Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Smriti Manch (PDUSM), companies that had requested permission to import plastic waste and the Plastic Export Promotional Council. In 2021, seven Indian companies have applied to import 93,000 tonnes of plastic bottles waste from countries such as America, Canada, Germany, citing a shortage of plastic waste in India. “More than 465 crore discarded PET bottles of mineral water, cold drink, juice consumed in these countries could be imported into our country (1 bottle – 20gms),” the PDUSM said in a statement. A campaign by the PDUSM against the import of plastic waste had played a role in the Centre’s decision to impose a ban in 2019. Please click here to read more.