The Indian packaging industry constitutes about 4% of the global packaging industry. It has shown a growth of 13% annually expecting to reach $32 billion by 2020. Plastic packaging sums up to about 40%. However, 25 states in India have banned the use of plastic. This would open doors or boost the packaging of paper, especially for food. The use of plastic for food packing can be hazardous to health, as when heated, chemicals like bisphenols and phthalates are implicated in numerous health challenges like diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
Other than plastic being poisonous and hazardous the advantage of paper packaging is that it is bio-degradable. Humans have reached the phase where keeping an eye on the environment has become a necessity. To save the environment from pollution which seems to be the most important issue all over the world today, plastic can be replaced by the use of paper which is bio-degradable causing less pollution when compared to plastic.