Every water bottle, shampoo pouch, and biscuit wrapper you throw away in India enters one of the world’s largest, least visible industries: an informal-but-massive recycling economy built on waste pickers, scrap dealers, and small shredding units, layered under a new government policy trying to formalize it. Here’s what the numbers actually say about where it … Continue reading Inside India’s Plastic Recycling Business: Where Does Your Plastic Actually Go?