Unwrapping India’s plastic packaging problem: from boom to crisis
A 2024 Norway-funded study identified 16,000 chemicals present or used in plastics.
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In 1957, an Indian plastic-packaging maker chronicled the happy fate of a hosiery brand that had begun wrapping its products in plastic. The result, he wrote in an Indian daily, was a 65% jump in sales.
Paper, wood, aluminium, tin and other containers had been on the market for decades, but were opaque. “It is well known that when a customer sees what he wants, he is more apt to want what he can see,” wrote G.R. Bhide, an executive at Plastics Packaging Pvt. Ltd.
Published – April 22, 2026 08:45 pm IST
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