The rapid rate of plastic consumption throughout the world has
led to the creation of increasing amounts of waste and this in turn
poses greater difficulties for disposal. This is due to the fact that
duration of life of plastic wastes is very small (roughly 40% have
duration of life smaller than 1 month) [6] and depending on the
area of application, the service life of plastic products ranges from 1
to 35 years [3]. The weighted average service life of all plastics
products is different in different countries and in India it is 8 years;
this is much less than the weighted average service life for
Germany which is estimated at 14 years. This difference in service
life reflects the fact that a particularly high share of plastics is used
for short life products in India (e.g. share of plastics packaging: 42%
in India versus 27% in Germany [3