How should I recycle plastic bags in Mumbai?

Recycling waste is a multimillion rupee business in Mumbai. Dharavi's speciality is recycling plastic. According to the NSDF survey, Dharavi's plastic recycling industry is the largest in India. It employs over 5,000 people and the turnover in 1986 was an estimated Rs 60 lakh a year. Today, it should be many times higher. read more

Most recycling is actually downcycling. Most of the times, recycling is both economically and environmentally a loss. This is especially true for developing countries like ours with little infrastructure, strong policies and systems in place. read more

Plastic recycling restores waste scrap or waste plastics and recycling the material into useful products. Plastics are not biodegradable, they include soluble non-alcoholic beverage bottles and cast them as plastic chairs and tables, plastics are recycled during the production process. plastic goods such as polyethylene film and bags. read more

Recycling woes Civic officials said recycling and disposal of existing plastic waste will be a bigger task, as there were just four registered recyclers with no presence in Mumbai. A senior civic official, said,"We will be writing to the MPCB to either increase the number of registered recyclers or to provide us with an alternative. read more