India's first naturally degradable milk pouch: soil-safe in years, not centuries
Mother Dairy used four years of R&D to build India's first naturally degradable milk pouch, rolling out from Delhi-NCR on June 5 with its cow milk variant. The packaging transforms into a microbe-edible wax that breaks down in soil within a few years instead of centuries, while staying recyclable. That matters because India discards an estimated 100-120 million pouches a day, most as fugitive plastic that never reaches recycling. The switch carries no price increase for consumers.