Management of Plastic Waste.
Website Material on Plastic Waste
Management
Central Pollution Control Board,
Parivesh Bhawan, East Arjun Nagar,
Delhi-110032
June, 2013
Chapter – 1: Annual Report (2011-12) on Implementation of PWM
Plastic products have become an integral part in our daily life as a basic need. It produced on a massive scale worldwide and its production crosses the 150 million tonnes per year globally. In India approximately 8 Million tonnes plastic products are consumed every year (2008) which is expected to rise 12 milllion tones by 2012. Its broad range of application is in packaging films, wrapping materials, shopping and garbage bags, fluid containers, clothing, toys, household and industrial products, and building materials. It is a fact that plastics will never degrade and remains on landscape for several years. The recycled plastics are more harmful to the environment than the virgin products due to mixing of colour, additives, stabilizers, flame retardants etc.
Further, the recycling of a virgin plastic material can be done 2-3 time only, because, after every recycling, the strength of plastic material is reduced due to thermal degradation. It is to mention that no authentic estimation is available on total
generation of plastic waste in the country however, considering 70% of total plastic consumption is discarded as waste, thus approximately 5.6 million tons per annum
(TPA) of plastic waste is generated in country, which is about 15342 tons per day
(TPD).
Environmental issues on disposal of Plastic Waste:
Indiscriminate littering of unskilled recycling/reprocessing and non-biodegradability of plastic waste raises the following environmental issues:
•
During polymerization process fugitive emissions are released.
•
During product manufacturing various types of gases are released.
•
Indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste on land makes the land infertile due to its barrier properties.
•
Burning of plastics
Management
Central Pollution Control Board,
Parivesh Bhawan, East Arjun Nagar,
Delhi-110032
June, 2013
Chapter – 1: Annual Report (2011-12) on Implementation of PWM
Plastic products have become an integral part in our daily life as a basic need. It produced on a massive scale worldwide and its production crosses the 150 million tonnes per year globally. In India approximately 8 Million tonnes plastic products are consumed every year (2008) which is expected to rise 12 milllion tones by 2012. Its broad range of application is in packaging films, wrapping materials, shopping and garbage bags, fluid containers, clothing, toys, household and industrial products, and building materials. It is a fact that plastics will never degrade and remains on landscape for several years. The recycled plastics are more harmful to the environment than the virgin products due to mixing of colour, additives, stabilizers, flame retardants etc.
Further, the recycling of a virgin plastic material can be done 2-3 time only, because, after every recycling, the strength of plastic material is reduced due to thermal degradation. It is to mention that no authentic estimation is available on total
generation of plastic waste in the country however, considering 70% of total plastic consumption is discarded as waste, thus approximately 5.6 million tons per annum
(TPA) of plastic waste is generated in country, which is about 15342 tons per day
(TPD).
Environmental issues on disposal of Plastic Waste:
Indiscriminate littering of unskilled recycling/reprocessing and non-biodegradability of plastic waste raises the following environmental issues:
•
During polymerization process fugitive emissions are released.
•
During product manufacturing various types of gases are released.
•
Indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste on land makes the land infertile due to its barrier properties.
•
Burning of plastics