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Clear colour-sorted PET bottles on a conveyor feeding a food-grade recycling and washing line in India

Editor’s PickIndustry Trends18 Oct 20267 minPlastic, PET

India Is Building Food-Grade rPET Plants Faster Than It Can Feed Them. Clean PET Bottles Are Now the Scarce Input.

On 15 October 2026, the country's largest PET recycler cleared its fourth food-grade recycled-PET line, part of a wave of capacity built to meet the rule that food and drink brands must use 40% recycled plastic in 2026-27. India now has about 17 FSSAI-approved food-grade rPET plants with roughly 3 lakh tonnes a year of capacity, heading towards an estimated 7.5 lakh tonnes by March 2027. But a food-grade plant cannot run on just any bottle. It needs clean, clear, well-sorted PET, and that is exactly the material the collection chain is worst at supplying. The bottleneck is no longer plants. It is feedstock.

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Editor’s PickCompliance14 Oct 202611 minBattery, Lithium-ion, Lead Acid

Battery Scrap EPR Regulatory Updates for H1 FY 2026-27

Between 1 April and 30 September 2026, India's battery rules did not receive a new Gazette amendment. The operating standard still changed sharply. A GST e-invoice cutover and two detailed CPCB guidelines connected battery-scrap collection, storage, transport, recycling, recovered-material sales and EPR certificates more tightly than before.

Stacks of circuit boards and bins of used batteries inside an Indian e-waste recycling plant

Editor’s PickGovernment14 Oct 20269 minBattery, Lithium-ion, E-Waste

India Has Approved 8.5 Lakh Tonnes of New Capacity to Recycle E-Waste and Battery Scrap. The Hard Part Is Finding the Scrap.

Fifty-eight companies cleared under the ₹1,500 crore critical mineral recycling scheme have pledged about 8.5 lakh tonnes a year of capacity, roughly three times what the government expected. India's registered e-waste recyclers already have more capacity than the country officially generates in e-waste. With a critical minerals stockpile policy due in about a month and lithium prices down by half since May 2026, the real contest now is over collection, and that puts aggregators and collectors in a stronger position.

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Editorial image for India's Draft Steel Policy Plans for 123 Million Tonnes of Scrap a Year by 2047, Almost All of It Collected at Home. Comments Close on 30 October.

Editor’s PickGovernment11 Oct 20269 minFerrous, Steel, Stainless Steel

India's Draft Steel Policy Plans for 123 Million Tonnes of Scrap a Year by 2047, Almost All of It Collected at Home. Comments Close on 30 October.

The Ministry of Steel's draft National Steel Policy: Vision 2047 projects ferrous scrap use rising from 36 million tonnes in 2025-26 to 123 million tonnes by 2047-48. Domestic collection has to do almost all the work: it must grow from 28 million tonnes to 111 million tonnes, and the draft proposes a nationwide collection drive modelled on Swachh Bharat to get there. Scrap's share of steelmaking, though, is planned to stay at about 21%. Anyone can send suggestions to the ministry until 30 October 2026.

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Editor’s PickIndustry Trends1 Sept 20261 minPlastic, PET, HDPE, PP

Indian rPET Market: High Shipping Costs Stall Exports

India's rPET market stays steady as scrap sellers hold stock for post-monsoon demand. High ocean freight costs continue to stall export sales.

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Technology6 Aug 20265 minPlastic, PET

Bottle-to-bottle PET capacity is being built faster than collection can feed it

Food-grade rPET commitments assume a bottle recovery rate the collection network does not currently deliver.

Buyer DemandPrice IncreaseInvestment OpportunitySupply Shortage

India Is Building Food-Grade rPET Plants Faster Than It Can Feed Them. Clean PET Bottles Are Now the Scarce Input.

Battery Scrap EPR Regulatory Updates for H1 FY 2026-27

India Has Approved 8.5 Lakh Tonnes of New Capacity to Recycle E-Waste and Battery Scrap. The Hard Part Is Finding the Scrap.

India's Draft Steel Policy Plans for 123 Million Tonnes of Scrap a Year by 2047, Almost All of It Collected at Home. Comments Close on 30 October.