Category : Plastic pollution | Location : National | Posted on 2022-10-26 23:05:41
On July 1 this year, India banned the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of identified single-use plastic items all across the country.
The elaborate list of banned items included plastic plates, cups, glasses, cutlery (such as forks, spoons, knives, straws, trays), stirrers, earbuds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic flags, candy sticks, ice-cream sticks, thermocol for decoration, wrapping films around sweet boxes, invitation cards, cigarette packets, and plastic or PVC banners less than 100 microns.
Even though the move was aimed at reducing the growing plastic pollution in the country, the July rule did not include packaging plastic in the list of banned products. What’s more, companies were made responsible for recycling their plastic packaging waste under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/environment/story/why-plastic-pollution-continues-unchecked-in-india-2289887-2022-10-27
