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Dabur India Felicitated by EDMC for Plastic Waste Management

abur India Limited, one of India's oldest and largest “Dabur India Limited is committed to becoming
DAyurvedic medicine manufacturers, is a household PlasticWasteNeutral Company by the end of 2020-21
name in the market. The company is dedicated to the fiscal. In the current fiscal, we will be collecting and
health and well being of every household and has always processing/recycling over 12,000 MT of post-consumer
been upfront to take steps towards global issues like plastic waste across 25 states in India. Under this
climate change and environmental conservation. initiative, the plastic waste will be collected from the
end-users with the help of local ragpickers across the
For their continuous efforts towards collecting,
processing, and recycling post-consumer plastic waste 25 states. The company aims to become a Plastic Waste
in Delhi, Dabur India has recently been felicitated by Neutral company by collecting 20,000 MT of plastic waste
East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC). from across India.,” the company said in its release

Clariant and Lavergne Convert Ocean-Bound Plastics into Flame-

Retardant Compounds

The fully recyclable OBP-based compound has successfully passed molding trials at part manufacturers and
is commercially available.

hemicals company Clariant has teamed up with The initiative arises from Lavergne’s wider mission to
CLavergne, a producer of sustainable engineering create new uses for plastic, in this case polyethylene
resin from recycled ocean-bound plastics, to develop terephthalate (PET), recycled from ocean-bound waste
halogen-free, flame-retardant polyester compounds made streams. Ocean-bound plastic (OBP) refers to plastic waste
from ocean-bound plastics. With the first grade already that is recovered from the more than eight million metric
commercialized, the collaboration is supporting demand tons of plastic currently entering the oceans each year. The
from major electrical and electronics brand owners for first flame-retardant compound, Lavergne VYPET OBP-FR,
post-consumer recyclates that are flame retardant. has 30% glass-fiber reinforcement and a UL 94 V-0 flame
rating at 0.8 mm thickness, which makes it suitable for
many electric and electronic plastic applications, including
aesthetic and structural parts. The fully recyclable OBP-
based compound has successfully passed molding trials at
part manufacturers and is commercially available.

“This development reinforces Clariant’s continuing
commitment to developing sustainable additives that,
through value chain collaboration, can help bring plastics
into a circular, more resource-efficient economy,” said
Subra Narayan, Technical Market Manager for Clariant
Flame Retardants in North America. Previously, OEMs for
electrical and electronics industry applications targeted
The new material uses Clariant’s flagship halogen-free less-demanding components like packaging trays.
Exolit OP flame retardants, chosen for their “proven With these new developments, that industry can now
excellent environmental and health profile” and a expand the use of recyclates to other structural parts of
GreenScreen Benchmark 3 assessment for the key electronics equipment. Additionally, OEMs are supporting
phosphinate ingredient. In addition, Exolit OP grades have the sourcing of OBP by sponsoring waste collection and
been confirmed as suitable for various recycling processes clean-up efforts.
without losing their flame-retardant properties. (Courtesy: Plastics Today)

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