Eliminate from root
We need to remove it from the root.
Imagine if no plastic comes out from the factories. All plastic producing industries are closed. How will anybody is going to use plastic.
And human mind is very adaptive and will definitely find an alternate solution.
I remember my childhood days where there was no plastic and my parents managed it effectively and I don't remember anybody talking about waste those days as most of the materials used was biodegradable.
Lets say there is a rat in a house and is causing all sorts of problems; cutting cables, wires, eating grains, etc. I compare the plastic(Plastic producing industries) to a rat. Lets say I don't want to harm the rat but still I want to protect all my belongings. Is it going to work?
The simplest solution is to kill the rat and all other problems are solved automatically without even doing anything about it.
Let the government take the first step in closing all the plastic manufacturing industries. It is even threatening to know that plastic engineering/technology degrees are being permitted/running.
I don't see a solution in a) penalizing pity shopkeepers many of even don't understand the adversities of using plastic but are barely acting with the resource available to them or b) even educating the masses about plastic menace as it is almost impossible to completely eliminate plastic use(Unless removed from root) as 99.99 percent of all products available in the market comes with plastic wrap/packaging.
If our Honorable Prime Minister can eliminate this one root cause of plastic; the plastic producing industries, I think is greatest of his achievements and all the other dream projects of him like Swachh Bharat, Cleaning Ganga river etc. will become a byproduct of this one achievement. more