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AIPMA AT WORK

AIPMA organises 'The Recycle Conference' Your Partner for

IPMA and PVI 2020, together had organised Recycle The Panellists were Mr. Vimal Kedia – Chairman and MD,
AConference at the Royal Ball Room of the Radisson Blu Manjushree Technopack Ltd.; Mr. Jeevaraj Pillai – Joint
Hotel, Greater Noida on March 2, 2019 . The conference President – Packaging and New Product Development Vacuum Solutions in
was sponsored by ET Polymers, Reliance Industries Limited. and Head of Recycling Initiative, UFLEX India; Mr. Sachin
Sharma – Founder, GEM Enviro Management Pvt. Ltd. (PRO);
Mr. Akhilesh Bhargava Former Chairman, Environment Plastics Processing
Committee, AIPMA
Prof. A.K.Ghosh, Head – Department of Material Science
and Engineering, IIT Delhi emphasised in his remarks that
Plastic Waste management is a challenging subject in Busch is the leading manufacturer of vacuum generators for all applications in
various countries. He also shared his perspective on plastic plastics processing – from the stage of extracting the raw materials to processing
recycling. Prof. Ghosh, who was a panel moderator for them into final plastic products.
The future of plastic recycling in India then invited the
panellists viz., Mr. Amit Saha – Founder and CEO, PRO- India Rely on the trusted name for vacuum. Rely on Busch.
Recycling; Mr. Imteyaz Ali – Founder, Sarthak Samudayik
Lamp lighting By Shri P. Raghavendra Rao, Secretary, DCPC,
Vikas Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan (PRO); Dr. Medha
Tadpatrikar – Director, Rudra Environmental Solutions
The Theme of this Conference was : “End Plastic Waste (India) Ltd.; Mr.Abhishek Deshpande Director, Recykal.com
– The key to circular economy!” The conference was
inaugurated with lamp lighting ceremony by honourable
chief guest Shri P. Raghavendra Rao, Secretary (Chemicals
& Petrochemicals), DCPC Ministry of Chemicals and
Fertilizers, Government of India.
At the outset, Mr. Meela Jayadev, President AIPMA,
briefly addressed the gathering, welcoming all delegates
to Recycle Conference 2019, emphasising that Plastic
waste management has emerged as one of the greatest
challenges of 21st century. We were fortunate to have
Padma Shri Kartikeya Sarabhai, Centre of Environment
Education, Ahmedabad as a keynote speaker. He presented circular economy represents an alternative, more
on ‘Plastics – The challenge for a Miracle product’. sustainable model to the traditional linear economy. A
Mr. Rajesh K Gera, AVP -Business Development, Reliance circular economy leads to competitiveness and resource
Industries Limited, gave an overview of PET – trends efficiency. While plastics can play a big role in driving
in Indian Market, its application, consumption and circular economy, there is a strong need to address
recycling while Mr. Chandramohan Gupta, Coca Cola gave the plastics waste challenge to improve the material’s
a presentation on ‘Industry view on building a Circular circularity. Conference was aimed to address all these
Plastic Economics’ various challenges.
Honourable chief guest Shri P. Raghavendra Rao, Secretary
(Chemicals & Petrochemicals), DCPC Ministry of Chemicals
and Fertilizers, Government of India enlightened about
the PWM Rules and ongoing development in recycling laws.
Niranjan Mudholkar, B2B and Chief Community Officer,
Worldwide Media (WWM), The Times of India Group, Busch Vacuum India Pvt Ltd.
welcomed and expressed his gratitude to the delegates
for extending their support in Recycle Conference 2019 +91 (0) 124 475 1300 | sales@buschindia.com
Mr. Niranjan Mudholkar, subsequently invited www.buschindia.com
panellists discussion on – Tackling Plastic waste.

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