Tiruchi Corporation cracks down on circulation of single-use plastics in commercial establishments
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tiruchi Corporation cracks down on circulation of single-use plastics in commercial establishments

The Hindu  

The Tiruchi City Corporation has launched an enforcement drive to check the use of single-use plastics and other banned products used for packaging in shops. So far, over 430 kg of single-use plastics from 412 shops across five zones and levied penalties amounting to ₹3.06 lakh. Single-use plastics such as cups and covers were seized from eateries, textile shops, roadside vegetable and fruit stalls, and grocery shops in all five zones. Clogged drains According to a source, around 583 shops were inspected and banned plastic items were found in 191 shops in five zones of the city on the first day of the drive.

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Will alternatives to plastic bags step up the fight against waste?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Will alternatives to plastic bags step up the fight against waste?

The Hindu  

The switch to the alternatives to the banned plastic products has yielded mixed results in Tamil Nadu. A shopkeeper at Parry’s Corner says, “We have shifted from selling plastic items to printing invitation cards, selling greeting cards and paper and cloth bags since the Tamil Nadu government banned the single-use plastic. But, on Anderson Street, you will still find many …

2 years after ban, single-use plastic still a common sight in Delhi
5 months, 3 weeks ago

2 years after ban, single-use plastic still a common sight in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

It has been two years since the country-wide ban on 19 single-use plastic came into force to phase them out but little has changed on the ground — indicating the need for stricter enforcement, and the lack of cheaper alternatives — spot checks by HT on Monday found. The ban was notified on July 1, 2022, after which enforcement teams …

Crackdown on single-use plastics: Coimbatore Corporation imposed fine of ₹ 7 lakh on businesses in January
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Crackdown on single-use plastics: Coimbatore Corporation imposed fine of ₹ 7 lakh on businesses in January

The Hindu  

The Coimbatore Corporation has taken decisive steps to curb the use of banned plastic bags and single-use plastics, imposing fines totalling ₹ 7,01,550 across the zones in the city last month. The penalties were levied on 115 out of 142 shops in the city’s flower market, and 2,311 businesses found in violation, and seized 569 kg of single-use plastics during …

Plastic bags continue to dot Vijayawada despite ban
1 year, 5 months ago

Plastic bags continue to dot Vijayawada despite ban

The Hindu  

Plastic carry bags, which pose a threat to the environment due to indiscriminate disposal, continue to dot Vijayawada even as a ban on their sale is in force for around a year now. Traders continue to stock plastic carry bags, disposable tumblers and similar non-biodegradable items, with vendors also continuing to provide them to their customers on demand. “We have …

Use of plastic bag continues even after ban
1 year, 6 months ago

Use of plastic bag continues even after ban

The Hindu  

The Coimbatore Corporation seized nine tonnes of single-use plastic in the city in the last five months and even as officials continue to seize the plastic, its use continues across the city. “Middlemen who buy plastic items from Raja Street or Thomas Street visit us at the markets to sell a pack of 100 covers for ₹ 100 whereas paper …

240 tonnes of plastic dumped in Delhi everyday: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

240 tonnes of plastic dumped in Delhi everyday: Report

Hindustan Times  

The Capital currently generates over 1,100 tonnes per day of plastic waste, but only around 870 TPD is being recycled or managed, leaving a gap of 242 TPD, or 22% of Delhi’s plastic waste load which ends up either in drains, at landfill or finding its way to the Yamuna, the latest data shows. Read here: Environment needs our urgent …

Most complaints about single-use plastic came from Delhi: Report
1 year, 9 months ago

Most complaints about single-use plastic came from Delhi: Report

Hindustan Times  

On July 1, 2022, the ban on 19 single-use plastic items came into force. Four months later, Delhi had logged 634 complaints on the Central Pollution Control Board’s app — the highest in the country — but only 59% of them have been redressed, according to the Centre for Science and Environment ’s annual State of Environment report. CSE had …

Banned Single-use plastics are still widely used across Chennai
1 year, 11 months ago

Banned Single-use plastics are still widely used across Chennai

The Hindu  

Single-use plastics are still in widespread use in Chennai three years after the Tamil Nadu government ordered a ban on the manufacture, sale, and usage of plastic and polystyrene commodities. “One pack of 100 plastic straws used to cost ₹30 but a pack of 80 paper straws costs nearly ₹45,” said Selvam, a tender coconut vendor at Valasaravakkam. Alternatives not …

38% of shops violate plastic ban, says a Corporation survey in 15 zones
2 years, 2 months ago

38% of shops violate plastic ban, says a Corporation survey in 15 zones

The Hindu  

Over 38% of the 12,883 shops which were inspected during a drive conducted in the last two weeks by the Greater Chennai Corporation were found to be using banned plastics. Most shops in zones such as Tiruvottiyur, Madhavaram and Tondiarpet were found using banned plastics. As many as 411 out of 471 shops that were inspected during the period in …

Use of banned single-use plastics on the rise in Coimbatore city
2 years, 2 months ago

Use of banned single-use plastics on the rise in Coimbatore city

The Hindu  

Despite the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change amending the Plastic Waste Management Rules and imposing a ban on manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of single-use plastic items from July 1, 2022, the banned plastic is used widely across the city. Many of the retail vegetable vendors at Anna Market on Mettupalayam Road continue to use the …

Andhra Pradesh: Implementation of single-use plastic ban ineffective in Kurnool, Anantapur
2 years, 3 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Implementation of single-use plastic ban ineffective in Kurnool, Anantapur

The Hindu  

The implementation of the ban on single-use plastic has been the most ineffective in undivided Kurnool and Anantapur districts with the supply lines of carry bags, packing material for hotels and small restaurants/eateries continuing uninterrupted. While the Kurnool Municipal Corporation has been at the forefront in implementing it for a long time, during the current phase of the ban from …

Quitting single-use plastic in Japan
2 years, 4 months ago

Quitting single-use plastic in Japan

BBC  

Quitting single-use plastic in Japan Charly Triballeau / Getty Images Single-use plastics which cannot be recycled are difficult to avoid in Tokyo Japan is one of the world's biggest plastic waste producers, thanks to its love of packaging - but a week of going plastic-free in Tokyo reveals surprising solutions. 63% of plastic waste was processed as "thermal recycling," which …

More than a month now, single-use plastic ban not so effective in Bengaluru
2 years, 4 months ago

More than a month now, single-use plastic ban not so effective in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

Lathakumari, a vegetable vendor in Bommanahalli continues to use single-use plastic covers to pack vegetables for her customers, like many years before, despite a nationwide ban on the same since July 1. “The use of SUP is completely banned and the BBMP is creating awareness among vendors and citizens to use reusable cloth bags and paper bags. As part of …

Andhra Pradesh: GMC intensifies enforcement of ban on single-use plastic
2 years, 5 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: GMC intensifies enforcement of ban on single-use plastic

The Hindu  

The Guntur Municipal Corporation has intensified its enforcement of the ban on single-use plastic in the city as it has come to light that many vendors are yet to comply with the new rule. “We are making it clear that any shops, vegetable vendors, fruit vendors, malls and other establishments using single-use plastic would be fined ₹5,000. The 2013 notification …

Enforcing the plastic ban well
2 years, 5 months ago

Enforcing the plastic ban well

Hindustan Times  

The world is choking on plastics. On Friday, India took a leap forward to contain this scourge by operationalising the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, which bans the manufacture, import, stocking, sale, distribution, and use of single-use plastic items. In 2015, the government said India generated 9.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, but the Centre for Science and …

Plastic: From saviour of forests to the bane and the ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Plastic: From saviour of forests to the bane and the ban

The Hindu  

Around 253 million plastic straws are being used in Bengaluru alone every year. But, beginning Friday, users and manufacturers of any kind of single-use plastic items will have to cough up fines as the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, along with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike will follow strict implementation of the nationwide ban on SUP announced by the Central …

​Green Revolution 2.0: Single-Use Plastic Ban ‘Make or Break’ Moment for Green Future, Implementation Key​
2 years, 5 months ago

​Green Revolution 2.0: Single-Use Plastic Ban ‘Make or Break’ Moment for Green Future, Implementation Key​

News 18  

As the country prepares to take its first major step to phase out single-use plastic items starting Friday, environmentalists highlight that it is a ‘make-or-break’ moment for India’s green future. Our cities are littered with non-biodegradable plastic material, and it is greatly adding to environmental stress and degradation.” The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021, notified by the government in August …

Plastic ban: SUP still available in Delhi markets, traders awaiting alternatives
2 years, 5 months ago

Plastic ban: SUP still available in Delhi markets, traders awaiting alternatives

Hindustan Times  

A day before a ban on 19 single-use plastic items was going to come into force, many of these items were still available in markets across the city most shopkeepers saying that the alternatives to the banned articles were in short supply. While the government says a majority of the manufacturers of the banned SUP items have already switched to …

App, Control Rooms, Special Teams: India Set For Single-Use Plastic Ban From July 1
2 years, 5 months ago

App, Control Rooms, Special Teams: India Set For Single-Use Plastic Ban From July 1

News 18  

Clearing all decks, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has announced that India is set to ban manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items, which have low utility and high littering potential, all across the country from July 1. India notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules Rules, 2021 in August last year banning …

Green Revolution 2.0: Saying No to Plastic is Fantastic, Finding Options Isn't, Say Industries Ahead of Single-Use Ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Green Revolution 2.0: Saying No to Plastic is Fantastic, Finding Options Isn't, Say Industries Ahead of Single-Use Ban

News 18  

Preparations are underway on war-footing as India readies itself for a ban on notified single-use plastic items. We have already placed the orders, but there are logistical constraints as the same supplier is providing straws to multiple players.” While most industries have already replaced some of the single-use plastic items such as cutlery and ice-cream sticks, it is the shortage …

Corporation installs bag vending machines
2 years, 6 months ago

Corporation installs bag vending machines

The Hindu  

The Greater Chennai Corporation is planning to launch manjapai vending machines across the city with support from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and other agencies. As part of World Environment Day celebrations, Additional Chief Secretary Supriya Sahu launched the manjapai vending machines at Koyambedu market. We may install big cloth bag vending machines at 15 places in the first …

Andhra Pradesh: Guntur Municipal Corporation to impose ban on plastic bags from July 1
2 years, 6 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Guntur Municipal Corporation to impose ban on plastic bags from July 1

The Hindu  

Single-use plastic will be banned in Guntur from July 1, Municipal Commissioner Keerthi Chekuri said. The Commissioner, along with Mayor Kavati Manohar Naidu, told reporters that the ban would be enforced from July 1 and asked residents to cooperate with the GMC in order to achieve the civic body’s goal of eliminating single-use plastic. The 2013 notification has several features …

Drive against single-use plastics intensified, Greater Chennai Corporation tells Madras HC
2 years, 9 months ago

Drive against single-use plastics intensified, Greater Chennai Corporation tells Madras HC

The Hindu  

The Greater Chennai Corporation on Monday told the Madras High Court that it has intensified the drive against the banned single-use plastic products. Stating that the Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi himself had been monitoring the strict implementation of the ban on single-use plastics, the AAG said the civic body had decided to further tighten the implementation. He said that …

Delhi govt plans to phase out single-use plastic in 2022
2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi govt plans to phase out single-use plastic in 2022

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Delhi government plans to phase out single-use plastic such as bags, cutlery, films, banners, wrappers in three phases next year, beginning with thermocol and plastic sticks used with balloons, flags and candy, according to its draft alternatives to single-use plastic policy. The official said the draft policy is also open for public feedback and suggestions, both for …

India’s toxic love affair with plastic: on the 2022 ban against single-use products
3 years, 3 months ago

India’s toxic love affair with plastic: on the 2022 ban against single-use products

The Hindu  

C ome July 2022 and the Indian government’s ban on single-use plastics will come into force. The ‘Report on Single Use Plastics’, worked on by an expert committee constituted by the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, has categorised plastic products based on their environmental impact and utility — those found to have the lowest utility and highest environmental impact are …

Single-use Plastic Items Like Candy Sticks, Plates, Cups to Be Banned from July 1, 2022: Govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Single-use Plastic Items Like Candy Sticks, Plates, Cups to Be Banned from July 1, 2022: Govt

News 18  

New Delhi: The Centre has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, prohibiting manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items, including candy sticks, plates, cups and cutlery, from July 1, 2022. “The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of following single-use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect …

Several single-use plastic items to be banned from 1 July next year; Centre notifies amended rules
3 years, 4 months ago

Several single-use plastic items to be banned from 1 July next year; Centre notifies amended rules

Firstpost  

The thickness of plastic carry bags will be increased from 50 microns to 75 microns from 30 September, 2021, and to 120 microns from 31 December, 2022. New Delhi: The Centre has notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, prohibiting manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items, including candy sticks, plates, cups and cutlery, …

Discount coupons to segregate plastic waste, a hit in Shirur
3 years, 11 months ago

Discount coupons to segregate plastic waste, a hit in Shirur

Hindustan Times  

Despite the state government’s ban on plastic, there continues to be a wide usage of the material which is posing a problem for many local bodies in collecting and disposing off the waste. We have decided to give an incentive to citizens and encourage them to provide separate plastic waste to the contractor.” As per the Shirur Municipal Council officials, …

Single-use plastic, polythene bags to be banned in Ambala from Nov 1
4 years, 1 month ago

Single-use plastic, polythene bags to be banned in Ambala from Nov 1

India TV News  

Single-use plastic and polythene bags will remain prohibited in Ambala, with effect from November 1, the Secretary of Municipal Corporation, Ambala City said on Thursday. Earlier in September this year, the district administration has asked hotels, restaurants, shopkeepers and vendors to give an undertaking that they will not use single-use plastic. Elaborating the order, a senior officer had said the …

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