The Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) is ready to offer a packaging solution to the famed Tirupati ‘Laddu’ to enhance its shelf life, according to its Director NC Saha.

Speaking to newspersons at a press conference, Saha said IIP was waiting for response from the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) on a proposal it submitted earlier in this regard. “We are waiting for the positive response from TTD, so that they can install automatic vacuum packaging system for the packaging of ‘laddu’ with higher shelf life,” he said.

Referring to the upcoming national summit on packaging which would be meeting with a theme on ‘Packaging for Tomorrow’, he said the collection of packaging waste material was a challenge for the country.

Plastic collection

In a city like Mumbai which has about 1.2 million rag-pickers, flexible plastic materials which were light in weight and without resale value were not being collected, he added.

The IIP had taken an initiative with Indian Health & Beauty Care Products Association, Mumbai, to offer incentives to the rag pickers so that they collect plastic based waste material and supply to the recycling plant for the conversion into different solid material for non packaging application.

The conference would address a host of issues including this type of challenges, he added.

The size of global packaging industry, which is growing at 15 per cent per annum, is about $750 billion in which Indian share is $24.6 billion.

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