with rapidly increasing use of e commerce and ever increasing number of packets being delivered daily, what we are looking at is a huge environmental challenge slowly but ominously creeping up in front of us in the form of contribution of packaging to the already huge figures of waste being generated in India. on top of it we regularly encounter excessive packaging with multiple layers of plastic wrappings and proportionately huge cardboard boxes before we finally get hold of our ordered product. It shows very little concern for environment and definite lack of strong laws/regulations/norms to act as deterrent.
We want these e commerce companies to in a time bound move, devise ways to recollect and reuse the packaging material that otherwise contributes to waste and have strict norms/regulation immediately in place to keep excessive packaging in check.
As per Central Pollution Control Board (Ministry of environment, forest and climate change) figures only 60% of the total plastic waste generated gets recycled leaving 40% or around 6000 metric tonne that gets dumped leaving it to submit to SC that "we are sitting on a plastic time bomb".