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Himalayan Cleanup Report 2024

May 13 , 2025 17 hrs 0 min 17 0

This report draws on extensive plastic waste and brand audits conducted from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh since 2018.
In 2024, Nepal and Bhutan also joined the initiative.
80 per cent of plastic waste in the region comes from single-use food and beverage packaging.
70 per cent of this waste comprises of plastic products that are neither recyclable nor have any alternate market value.
Only 18.5 per cent of the total waste is made up of recyclable plastics such as Polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Sikkim emerged as the most proactive state, with 53,814 pieces of waste collected from 86 sites.
Multi-layered plastics (MLP) constituted 68.5 per cent of the total plastic waste.
While PET accounted for 18.5 per cent, LDPE for 5.4 per cent, and HDPE just one per cent.