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The paper industry in India is more than a century old. Commercial production of paper started as early as 1879. Limitations with respect to forest-based raw materials forced the Indian paper industry, in these early stages of its development, to utilise non-conventional materials, such as straw, bagasse, and textile material. India was the first country in the world to have a paper mill relying entirely on bamboo as its primary fibre. The use of non-conventional raw materials was strongly supported by the Indian government (RAO 1989). Around 1950 waste paper was also introduced as a raw material for the production of paper.
This chapter is based on van Beukering and Duraiappah (1998) The Economic and Environmental Impact of Wastepaper Trade and Recycling in India: A Material Balance Approach, Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(2); 23–42, and Van Beukering and Sharma (1998) Waste Paper Trade and Recycling in India. Pawan Kumar Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur.
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The Indian wastepaper market is not really notable from an international perspective. In 1997, India imported only 375 000 tons of the 17 5 million tons traded internationally. In the same year China, for example, imported more than 3 million tons (FAO, 1999 ).
GAMS Release 2.25 was used to solve the model (Brooke, Kendrick and Meeraus 1996).
The overall procedure of the appraisal of external costs is described in detail in Chapter 5. Benefit transfer has been conducted, on the basis of the difference in purchasing-power parities (PPP) between India and the reference country in the year 1997.
In the early 1990s, the Indonesian government banned the import of waste plastics after a demonstration in Jakarta of waste pickers and domestic traders, who complained of the dumping of cheap foreign waste plastics.
Most of the data have been reported in this chapter. A complete overview the data used in the model can be found in the main report (van Beukering and Sharma 1998).
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van Beukering, P.J.H. (2001). Recycling and trade of waste paper in India. In: Recycling, International Trade and the Environment: An Empirical Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9694-7_6
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