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Mother Dairy reaffirms commitment towards environment safety
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Friday, 11 June, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private Limited, country’s leading milk and milk products major, reiterated its commitment towards a cleaner environment; and unveiled that it has collected and recycled/co-processed 7,284 MT of post-consumer used plastic waste in the country till March 2021. The overall volume includes both Multi-Layered Plastic (MLP) and Single Layered Plastic (SLP) waste.
MDFVPL started its plastic waste collection and recycling/co-processing initiative in Maharashtra in FY2018-19 under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme and scaled up the initiative on pan-India level for MLP in FY2019-20. The company has been closely working with leading Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) for implementation of the programme.
Elaborating on the initiative, Manish Bandlish, managing director, Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private Limited, said, “MDFVPL is a responsible organisation and we feel it’s our duty to contribute towards a cleaner environment as well as to create awareness. We are the first company amongst the Indian dairy co-operatives to acquire registration under Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as well as implementing EPR. Our efforts have always been aligned towards a holistic approach of collecting and recycling/co-processing of post-consumer used SLP and MLP waste. The Company stands committed to prolong these efforts and strengthen the momentum going ahead."
Other initiatives
-Mother Dairy has been engaging and encouraging its consumers to opt for Token Milk (Automated Milk Vending system) at the company’s booths in Delhi NCR and this effort has eliminated the generation of around 700 MT plastic waste every year.
-MDFVPL has initiated a research programme on eco-friendly packaging and has introduced paper trays for curd cups as a replacement of plastic trays which will eliminate usage of approx. 100 MT of plastic.
-The company has replaced all plastic spoons with wooden spoons and eliminated plastic straws provided along with a few dairy products.
-Enhanced consumption for 1 litre milk packs instead of 500 ml has helped the Company to eliminate use of plastic bag/pouch by approx. 240 MT annually.
Single Layered Plastic (SLP) such as milk pouches, curd, yoghurt, ice-cream cups, lassi and chaach bottles are being collected, segregated and recycled in Delhi NCR and Maharashtra. The Company has implemented 100% EPR for MLP, such as laminates and Tetra Packs across 26 states of the country where the company operates in, including Delhi NCR and Maharashtra.
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