After India's government took 86% of currency out of circulation a couple of months ago, its main policy think-tank has a new plan for the country: rendering plastic money "irrelevant" by 2020.

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

Neemit Punamiya, secretary of the Plastic Bags Manufacturers Association of India, estimates that India's plastic industry could lose over $2.2 billion and 300,000 jobs as a result of the ban ...

According to a recent study, Indians are using plastic money more frequently. Card transactions have grown 69 per cent, and card issuance 30 per cent ...

Plastic money for your family. TNN / Nov 28, 2002, 12:18 IST. Share. AA + Text Size. Small; ... Severe competition has prompted credit card outfits in India to dole out attractive incentives.

India’s fascination with plastic money seems to growing stronger by the day. Explore. Search Sunday, Jun 30, 2024. New Delhi o C. Games. E-Paper. Sign in. My Account. Home; Latest News; HT Premium; ...

In an e-mail, the authors of the study told india today that the total plastic waste generated in India is 27.8 Mt, far, far higher than the 3.5 Mt the CPCB estimated for 2020 (see The India Stack).

PLASTIC money may be popular in the west and in many developing economies, but in India – a country with one of the highest individual savings rate of around 25 per cent – banks find it ...

Nearly half of the Indian plastic money users are extremely concerned about frauds in case, payments are done through credit or debit cards, while 73 per cent are left shaken by media reports of ...

The amount of plastic trash coming into India in waste paper now is more than 264,000 metric tons that was legally imported in 2019 to the country before it imposed the ban in August of that year ...