As per the annual report of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for the year 2018-19, India produced over 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic, an increase of over more than 1 million metric tonnes compared to 2017-18; the major generation came from Maharashtra (12%), Tamil Nadu (12%), Gujarat (11%), West Bengal (9%), Uttar Pradesh (8%), Karnataka (8%) and Delhi (7%). The 4,773 registered plastic recycling units, including 7 biodegradable facilities, and 1,084 unregistered plastic recycling enterprises, were employed to manage such a massive amount of plastic rubbish (CPCB 2019). 60 per cent of all manufactured plastic is recycled. The remaining 40 per cent of plastic becomes waste if it is not cleaned and segregated, and it is either landfilled or pollutes streams or groundwater resources. India, a rapidly rising non-industrial country with a population of 137 billion people, ranks twelfth in the world economy in terms of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Furthermore, India ranked third in the world in terms of PPP (purchase power product) (US EPA 2015). Plastics are classified as thermoplastics or thermosetting plastics based on how their physical and chemical properties change before and after heat treatment. Thermoplastics are heat-susceptible plastics such as polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polycarbonate (PC), and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) can be softened or melted into any shape under heating conditions and solidified when cooled, which can be repeatedly deformed with typical plasticity. Thermosetting plastics such as epoxy resin, phenolic resin, urea formaldehyde resin, and organo silicon resin do not undergo plastic deformation when heated; instead, they would decompose when the temperature continues to rise between 250-300 ⁰C.