Procter & Gamble (P&G) India mentioned on Thursday that it has grow to be ‘plastic waste impartial’ in monetary yr ended March 31. With this announcement, the corporate has joined different FMCG corporations in India — Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Nestle India, Dabur and ITC — to realize plastic waste-neutrality. HUL had achieved plastic waste-neutrality in 2021, 4 years forward of the goal, whereas Nestle, Dabur and ITC achieved the goal earlier this yr.
P&G has collected, processed, and recycled over 19,000 mt of post-consumer plastic packaging waste working with recycling companions throughout 75 cities in India. Along with recycling, the corporate within the final 5 years has diminished utilization of packaging materials by greater than 5,000 mt.
As a part of its sustainability objectives, the FMCG main can also be seeking to arrange two extra in-house photo voltaic crops at its manufacturing websites in Goa and Mandideep in India, along with the one it already has in Hyderabad.
Madhusudan Gopalan, CEO, Procter & Gamble – Indian Sub-Continent, mentioned, “We’re happy with the numerous progress now we have made on environmental sustainability, and attaining ‘plastic waste neutrality’ is a key milestone on this journey. We’re additionally taking a deliberate strategy to decreasing the impression of our operations, and organising in-house photo voltaic crops is a step on this route.” P&G has said that it plans to realize net-zero greenhouse fuel emissions throughout its operations by 2040.