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Ai, Law, and the Plastic Circular Economy: Charting India’s Path to a Greener Future
Summary
This study examines how artificial intelligence and legal frameworks can jointly advance India's transition to a plastic circular economy, arguing that AI-enabled governance and regulatory reform can help manage the country's 26,000 tonnes of daily plastic waste in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As artificial intelligence (AI) excels its supportive role to emerge as designer, trendsetter, and decision-maker, the normative framework of lawfaces profound disruption. This chapter situates AI within the jurisprudence of sustainable prosperity, asking how legal systems can reconcile algorithmic agency with ecological imperatives. Against this backdrop, the focus turns to India’s plastic circular economy, a transformative paradigm that seeks to replace linear models of “take–make dispose” with regenerative cycles of reuse, recycling, and innovation. India, producing nearly 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily, epitomizes both the urgency of the crisis and the promise of circular reform. By weaving AI-enabled governance, regulatory recalibration, and ethical stewardship, the chapter illustrates how law can both discipline and democratize the technology in service of ecological justice. In alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals—particularly SDGs 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16—it argues for an integrated pathway where intelligent systems, robust legal frameworks, and circular economy strategies converge to chart India’s greener future.