Luibeg: March 2009

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

NUMBER ONE

In a landmark development of major importance, Everest Plastic Industries of Mangalore have been Registered by the State Pollution Control Board as the very first Licensed manufacturer of bio-degradable plastic in India under a new Directive. Everest Plastic Industries, one of the oldest established plastic manufacturers in South India (1965) have been pioneers in the manufacture, use and promotion of bio-degradable plastics, and are dedicated to promoting the use of oxo-biodegradable plastic products through the application of the d2w range of additives.

Everest use only d2w additives in the production of all their plastic film and supply some of the largest and most influential Corporate and Multi-national names in India, thereby with such an endorsement, d2w is placed at the forefront of all oxo-biodegradable additives used in India.

Luibeg are delighted with this further significant news and will post an extensive report in due course, along with further major news relating to this breakthrough. In the meantime, the new Register will pave the way for all manufacturers to become licensed as environmentally friendly manufacturers of bio-degradable plastics. Currently there are over 500 recognized manufacturers in the State of Karnataka, 295 of whom are specifically manufacturing bags.

About Luibeg

Luibeg have been granted a exclusive 15 year License with Symphony Environmental Ltd of London for the importation, distribution and sale of the full range of d2w prodegradant additives and for the manufacture of all plastic films containing d2w additives in the Indian States of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Assam, Sikkim, Bihar and Orissa, and the Union Territories. Luibeg also have the non-exclusive right to operation within all other States for the same purpose.

(Non-biodegradable) Plastic Facts

Up to 1 TRILLION plastic bags are consumed worldwide – 1 Million per minute.

Waste plastic bags can be found from Spitsbergen (78 deg North) to the Falklands Islands (51 deg South).

1 Ton of plastics = 20,000 2 Litre bottles or 120,000 carrier bags

INDIA produces 8,000 metric tonnes of consumer plastic and produces 5,400 metric tonnes of consumer waste plastic per day. India is expected to become the 3rd largest producer of polymers in the world by 2010, touching 12.5 million metric tonnes by 2016 with a compound annual growth of 15%

Waste plastic hinders the aeration process of surface water, chokes sewers and storm water drains and clogs the bar-screens of sewerage plants.
In INDIA, with poor garbage collection facilities, tons of plastic litter the roads. Hundreds of cows in New Delhi die every year from choking on plastic bags.
1,000 people were killed as a result of flooding in Bombay – caused by gutters and drains choked with plastic waste.
In Calcutta there are 4,000 legal manufacturers employing 30,000. Daily production is in excess of 600 metric tonnes. (190,000 m/tonnes a year).

Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other mammals die each year as a result of eating discarded plastic bags and waste.

In January 06 Calcutta (Kolkata) Forest officials in Sunderabans were empowered to take court action against tourists littering plastic and other non-degradable waste.

South Africa has compelled manufacturers to produce 30micron bags. Retailers handing out thin bags face 10 years in prison and a US$13,800 fine.

Taiwan consumes an average of 20 billion bags a year (= 900 per person or 350million litres of oil)

Australia consumes an average of 7 billion bags a year. (= 326 per person.) About 50 million end up as litter.

The USA uses about 100 billion plastic bags a year, worth $4billion.

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Forty-seven percent of the total plastics waste generated is currently recycled in India; this is much higher than the share of recycling in most of the other countries. The total waste available for disposal (excluding recycling) will increase at least 10-fold up to the year 2030 from its current level of 1.3 million tonnes.

The increasing quantities of plastics waste and their effective and safe disposal has become a matter of public concern. The increasingly visible consequences of indiscriminate littering of plastic wastes (in particular plastic packaging wastes and discarded bags) has stimulated public outcry and shaped policy. (extracted from Wikkipedia)

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