Just how bad is India’s plastic problem?

The Bommasandra-Jigani link road near Bengaluru’s Electronic City is dotted with sleek, glass-fronted offices of pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology companies.

But swerve into one of the smaller roads and you will be faced with an all-too familiar sight: an unofficial landfill spread out over an acre and rising several metres high, its base strewn with recently-discarded plastic cups, polybags, wrappers, packaging material and other detritus of our daily lives. This plastic…ReadMore