What single use plastic items can India ban effective Oct 2, 2019?
For the first time ever, Government of India has pledged to conserve environment by taking a strong stand against use of single use plastic. As a ban on single use plastic is considered, we seek your very specific inputs on items that can be banned effective Oct 2nd, 2019.
While its important to conserve the environment, we also need to balance it with practical constraints and finding cost effective replacements of some of these products and develop the required capacities.
Kindly share your inputs on items where a ban can be placed by Oct 2, 2019. We look forward to your inputs and will consolidate them for due consideration by the Government stakeholders working on this initiative. more
While its important to conserve the environment, we also need to balance it with practical constraints and finding cost effective replacements of some of these products and develop the required capacities.
Kindly share your inputs on items where a ban can be placed by Oct 2, 2019. We look forward to your inputs and will consolidate them for due consideration by the Government stakeholders working on this initiative. more
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Action is being taken for use of polythene bags against small shopkeepers, rehriwalas etc. Mother Dairy, Amul and other big milk and milk product producers are supplying milk and other milk products in polypacks. Lays, Haldiram & others etc. are using polypacks for packing their products. Similarly there are thousands and thousands of small and big manufacturers using polythene for packing their products. If Govt. is seriously interested to remove plastics, it should concentrate first on root cause before imposing ban. Manufacturing of polythene or polypacks itself should be strictly banned. more
Sep 22
Phase-wise elimination of single use plastics seems wise. Failure (which is mot likely) of sudden complete ban will be mockery of law. more
Sep 21
Plastic bottles for cold drinks & drinking water may be banned; glass bottles may be used instead. Retailer / dealer of the respective items shall have to take back empty glass bottles and pay back the price that shall be printed on the bottle to the depositor. Plastic tea & coffee cups may also be banned; paper & earthen pots may be used. more
Sep 17
Banning singlr use plastic is alright beacause none of the local bodies have segregated garbage collection centres. Even now after 5 years,many local bodies do not have the door to door garbage collection facility. It is the need of the time to order strictly the local bodies to set up 1. Door to door collection of recyclable waste 2. Set up recycling centres themselves or promote through private parties. 3. Set up garbage collection centres to prpvide facility to discharge garbage segregated manner. This is absent now which leads to problems for collection staff and more particularly the all members working families. 4. If local bodies do that, then naturally the residents became aware of facilities available, The local body staff, particularly from health dept can emphasize residents to follow it. In the absence of above actions, banning of any plastic items cannot bring in necessary changes over a period of time. So the change in attitude of local body staff is essential, and the depts should provide financial support directly to the parties concerned if it is for setting up recycling and collection units etc. more
Sep 16
single use of plastic shall be started with some limited items and then if result is favourable then to other items more
Sep 16
