Big makers of drink cartons not ready to find suitable solutions
A worker arranges Amul drinks at an Amul cafe in Ahmedabad, India, on June 8, 2022. Picture: REUTERS/AMIT DAVE
India’s biggest dairy group Amul has written to the government urging it to delay a planned ban on plastic straws, saying the move will have a negative effect on farmers and milk consumption in the world’s biggest dairy producer. Amul made its appeal in a letter dated May 28 to Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the July 1 ban on straws packaged with small packs of juices and dairy products, a market an industry body estimates to be worth $790m. Amul sells billions of small dairy cartons with plastic straws every year.
The decision has spooked Amul and global drinks majors including PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, especially after the government refused to change its stance and asked companies to switch to other straws. In its letter, signed by MD RS Sodhi, the $8bn Amul group said the straws help promote milk consumption. It called for a one-year pause of the ban, part of ModiA delay would “provide huge relief and benefit” to 100-million dairy farmers who “safeguard our food security in terms of milk and milk products”, Sodhi said.s thinking said previously the straws were a “low-utility product” that should be replaced with paper straws or packs with redesigned spouts instead.
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