Lok Sabha Question No. 2298 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-08-05
Subject: Plastic Pollution
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri Pradeep Purohit

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2298

TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.08.2024

## Plastic Pollution

## 2298.   SHRI PRADEEP PUROHIT:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware of pollution due to use of plastic, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether Government has any data regarding generation of plastic waste in the country during the last five years, if so, the details thereof, State and year-wise; and
- (c) the details of percentage of generated plastic waste which is recycled in the country?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a) to (c): Unmanaged and littered plastic waste including plastic packaging waste has adverse impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, provides the statutory framework for plastic waste management in an environmentally sound manner throughout the country. Considering the adverse effect of littered single use plastic items on terrestrial, aquatic and  marine  ecosystems, the Ministry notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, on 12th August 2021, prohibiting identified single use plastic  items,  which  have  low  utility  and  high  littering  potential,  from  1st  July  2022.  The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has also notified the Guidelines on the Extended  Producer  Responsibility  for  plastic  packaging  vide  Plastic  Waste  Management Amendment Rules, 2022, on 16th February, 2022.

As per the Annual Reports of Central Pollution Control Board, plastic waste generated in the country during the last five years, is given below:

|   S. No. | Year    | Plastic Waste Generated (TPA)   |
|----------|---------|---------------------------------|
|        1 | 2016-17 | 1,568,714                       |
|        2 | 2017-18 | 660,787                         |
|        3 | 2018-19 | 3,360,043                       |
|        4 | 2019-20 | 3,469,780                       |
|        5 | 2020-21 | 4,126,997                       |

The plastic waste generated state-wise and year-wise as per Central Pollution Control Board Annual reports have been provided in Annexure I.

The total Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) of registered producers, importers and brand owners for plastic packaging is around 3 million tonnes for the year 2022 - 23, under EPR Guidelines.  As on date, the EPR certificates generated by registered plastic waste processors after processing of plastic packaging waste including recycling is 6.8 million tonnes.

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## Annexure I

## Year wise data for Plastic Waste Generation as per CPCB Annual Reports*

(* consolidated based upon information provided by State Pollution Control Board / Pollution Control Committee)

| S. No.   | States/UTs                  |             |              |             |          |           |
|----------|-----------------------------|-------------|--------------|-------------|----------|-----------|
|          |                             | 2016-17     | 2017-18      | 2018-19     | 2019-20  | 2020-21   |
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh              | 82863       | NA           | 66314       | 46222    | 39626.45  |
| 2.       | Arunachal Pradesh           | NA          | 6            | 3787.37     | 2721     | 3755.9    |
| 3.       | Assam                       | 24030       | NA           | 32277.87    | 24971    | 58765     |
| 4.       | Bihar                       | 2280        | 2280         | 68903.328   | 41365    | 74263.69  |
| 5.       | Chhattisgarh                | 7300        | NA           | 6000        | 32850    | 47450     |
| 6.       | Goa                         | NA          | NA           | 32580.52    | 26068    | 29441     |
| 7.       | Gujarat                     | 269294.88   | 269808       | 356873      | 408201   | 337693.96 |
| 8.       | Haryana                     | 23369.09    | NA           | 68735.26    | 147734   | 185168    |
| 9.       | Himachal Pradesh            | 255         | NA           | 3672        | 13683    | 6206.78   |
| 10.      | Jammu & Kashmir             | NA          | 27870        | 34367.37    | 74826.33 | 51710.6   |
| 11.      | Jharkhand                   | NA          | NA           | 51454.53    | 43332    | 20263.45  |
| 12.      | Karnataka                   | 419600      | NA           | 272776      | 296380   | 368080    |
| 13.      | Kerala                      | NA          | NA           | 133316      | 131400   | 120063.87 |
| 14.      | Madhya Pradesh              | 50457.07    | 61037        | 72327.39    | 121079   | 138483.58 |
| 15.      | Maharashtra                 | 21420.33    | NA           | 409630      | 443724   | 311254    |
| 16.      | Manipur                     | NA          | 24           | 12453.8     | 8293     | 10303     |
| 17.      | Meghalaya                   | 13.265      | 15.096       | 1263        | 5043     |           |
| 18.      | Mizoram                     | NA          | NA           | 13.306      | 7909     | 1514.51   |
| 19.      | Nagaland                    | NA          | 14052.5      | 268.18      | 565      | 4785.94   |
| 20.      | Odisha                      | 6890.805    | 12092.2 05   | 90138.98    | 45339.4  | 51269.9   |
| 21.      | Punjab                      | 163423.4    | 54066.1      | 119414.64   | 92890    | 108332.06 |
| 22.      | Rajasthan                   | NA          | NA           | 104704.38 3 | 51966    | 66324.57  |
| 23.      | Sikkim                      | 102.7       | NA           | 5.66        | 69       | 82.75     |
| 24.      | Tamil Nadu                  | 79114.792   | NA           | 401091      | 431472   | 430107    |
| 25.      | Telangana                   | NA          | NA           | 183014.65   | 233655   | 472675    |
| 26.      | Tripura                     | 30          | 28.5         | 26.2        | 32       | 61.65     |
| 27.      | Uttar Pradesh               | 152492.6445 | 206733. 4505 | 254401.8    | 161148   | 375950    |
| 28.      | Uttarakhand                 | NA          | NA           | 31093       | 25203    | 18647.75  |
| 29.      | West Bengal                 | NA          | NA           | 300236.12   | 300236   | 417925    |
| 30.      | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 365         | NA           | 1850        | 387      | 492.342   |

|   31. | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu   | NA       | NA    |   1947.7 |   1948 |      4726 |
|-------|--------------------------------------------|----------|-------|----------|--------|-----------|
|    32 | Chandigarh                                 | 21516.75 | 12775 |  11715.4 |   6746 |  13107.1  |
|    33 | Lakshadweep                                | NA       | NA    |    148   |     46 |    523.54 |
|    34 | Delhi NCR                                  | 232732   | NA    | 224810   | 230525 | 345000    |
|    35 | Puducherry                                 | 9252.25  | NA    |   8433   |  11753 |  12754    |