IIT Guwahati intends to collaborate with business to offer people environmentally friendly plastic items

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• Jul 25, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

The institute is trying to tie up with the industrial sector so that it learns to create different products from biodegradable plastic and make these things available to consumers, he said.

Digital
Desk: An official from the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati stated on Sunday that the
institute plans to work with the business community to make biodegradable
eco-friendly plastic available to the public as a substitute for single-use
plastic (SUP).

The declaration
follows the Union government's July 1 ban on SUP goods.

According to Dr. Vimal
Katiyar, Dean of the top institute's Research and Development, IIT Guwahati is
working on various projects employing locally made biodegradable plastic,
polymers, and resins to create carry bags, food trays, toys, and medical
equipment.

The institute is trying to tie up with the industrial sector so
that it learns to create different products from biodegradable plastic and make
these things available to consumers, he said.

Dr Katiyar was in Indore to participate in a function of the
plastic industry.

Sachin Bansal, head of the city's Indian Plast Pack Forum,
announced that his group has chosen to collaborate with IIT Guwahati to receive
training in the method of making various objects out of biodegradable plastic.

He announced that a delegation from the forum would go to IIT
Guwahati.

The
manufacturing of single-use plastics worth Rs 100 crore in Madhya Pradesh alone
has been put on hold by the Center's prohibition, according to Bansal, who also
claimed that they are looking for a workable substitute for SUP so that
production may begin.