Single-use plastics: The next five steps
2 years, 5 months ago

Single-use plastics: The next five steps

Hindustan Times  

On July 1, India banned single-use plastics, and pushed a new regulation on plastic bags, requiring them to become thicker over time. The government, especially the Bureau of Indian Standards, must set minimum standards to ensure alternatives can be reused and contain zero-toxicity, keeping the circular economy principles in mind. Moreover, composting can create local jobs, particularly for waste-pickers, who would lose 40-60% of their incomes if every single recyclable plastic was banned in India. Not only should the data include plastics that are banned or are under extended producer responsibility, but also compostable plastics.

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Plastic mess: On India’s waste problem
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Plastic mess: On India’s waste problem

The Hindu  

India, like other large economies, faces a significant plastic waste problem. According to a 2020-21 report by the Central Pollution Control Board, four million tonnes of plastic waste are generated annually. Recyclers, who have networks to collect plastic waste, recycle the waste and receive validated certificates for each tonne recycled. Addressing the root causes of plastic waste and enhancing the …

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 …

No microplastics: new rules queer the pitch for ‘biodegradable’ plastics
9 months ago

No microplastics: new rules queer the pitch for ‘biodegradable’ plastics

The Hindu  

The Environment Ministry has introduced rules that make it harder for makers of disposable plastic ware to label such products as ’biodegradable’, introducing a stipulation that they must not leave any microplastics behind. Biodegradable plastic and compostable plastic are projected as the two broad kinds of technological fixes to India’s burgeoning problem of plastic waste pollution. No microplastics A new …

India is moving away from single-use plastics
1 year, 5 months ago

India is moving away from single-use plastics

Hindustan Times  

Estimates suggest that about seven billion of the 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic produced between 1950 and 2017 became plastic waste, ending up in landfills or dumped. The ministry of environment, forest and climate change adopted a two-pronged strategy to tackle unmanaged and littered plastic waste by placing a ban on single-use plastic items and effective implementation through extended producer …

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 …

Most home compostable plastics don't break down, study finds
2 years, 1 month ago

Most home compostable plastics don't break down, study finds

The Independent  

The majority of plastics marketed as “home compostable” do not fully disintegrate and end up settling in soil, new research has found. The UK-based study, called The Big Compost Experiment, found that 60 per cent of home compostable plastics - used for items such as food packaging, bags and cutlery - do not break up within six months. An author …

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 …

India needs a united front to fix its garbage problem
2 years, 2 months ago

India needs a united front to fix its garbage problem

Hindustan Times  

As the much-celebrated Swachh Bharat Mission completes eight years of unprecedented focus on safe and inclusive sanitation, the path has changed significantly from where it started on October 2, 2014. An estimated 2,200 legacy dumpsites, strewn like ulcers on the country’s urban landscape, hold 160 million tonnes of waste and are waiting to be scientifically dismantled. Urban expansion has caused …

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 …

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 …

Do single-use plastic bans work?
2 years, 5 months ago

Do single-use plastic bans work?

BBC  

Do single-use plastic bans work? Getty Images The problems caused by plastic waste are rapidly increasing around the globe, but it still serves a useful purpose in food packaging. In the end it often turns out to be more polluting to use cardboard wrapping than plastic, when the entire food production chain is taken into account – Romane Osadnick The …

Plastic cups, straws still in use in Capital despite SUP ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Plastic cups, straws still in use in Capital despite SUP ban

The Hindu  

A week after a ban on 19 single-use plastic items kicked in, many of the banned items, including plastic cups, straws and plates were still seen being used across the city, found The Hindu. Explaining that paper cups are increasing his expenditure, Mr. Sarath said, “One plastic cup costs me 60-80 paisa and a paper cup will cost me over …

SUP ban enforcement from Tuesday
2 years, 5 months ago

SUP ban enforcement from Tuesday

The Hindu  

The city administration will begin crackdown on Single Use Plastic from Tuesday. Incidentally, the local body had earlier unsuccessfully attempted to ban plastic carry bags of thickness below 50 micron a couple of times. This time around, the local body has been vested with the responsibility of enforcing the Central government direction to ban the use of SUP. Meanwhile, the …

Explained | Enforcing the single-use plastic ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | Enforcing the single-use plastic ban

The Hindu  

The story so far: A ban on the use of single-use plastics that was notified by the Union Environment Ministry on August 2021 came into effect on July 1 this year. The notification said national and State-level control rooms would be set up to check illegal manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of banned single use plastic items. The …

Govt. to urge Centre to slash GST rates for manufacturing SUP alternatives
2 years, 5 months ago

Govt. to urge Centre to slash GST rates for manufacturing SUP alternatives

The Hindu  

Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Sunday said the Delhi government will appeal to the Centre to reduce the GST rates on raw materials for manufacturing the alternatives to single-use plastics. “Manufacturers and start-ups, which are working on the alternatives of single-use plastic brought to our notice that they have to pay more GST for the raw material,” Mr. Rai said, …

India's 'Green' Ban Takes Place Within Covid Confines: A Dive Into 'Pandemic of Plastic' & What We Can Do
2 years, 5 months ago

India's 'Green' Ban Takes Place Within Covid Confines: A Dive Into 'Pandemic of Plastic' & What We Can Do

News 18  

India has now banned several single-use plastic products – including plastic straws, disposable cutlery, and earbuds – among some keenly used items. The most commonly used products during the pandemic were clear plastic gloves, disposable masks, PPE kits and increase in food packaging. These centres were sent only yellow bags, as a result PPE kits, gloves, masks with food waste …

Single-use plastic ban: Noida authority's 'anti-plastic drive' culminates in Sector-77 today
2 years, 5 months ago

Single-use plastic ban: Noida authority's 'anti-plastic drive' culminates in Sector-77 today

India TV News  

Highlights Anti-plastic drive was conducted on Sunday by Noida authority to create awareness Noida authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari also participated in the awareness drive on July 3 Along with the awareness campaign, a musical band performance was also held Single-use plastic ban news: As per the guidelines from Uttar Pradesh administration, an anti-plastic drive was conducted by the Noida authority …

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 …

Six years down the lane, single-use plastic ban not so effective in Bengaluru
2 years, 5 months ago

Six years down the lane, single-use plastic ban not so effective in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

The whole country might now cut down on its single-use plastic products, but Karnataka was the first State to impose a ban on these products in as early as 2016. Although the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike came up with enforcement plans, over the years, the movement floundered, especially in the last two years …

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 …

Cups, straws, spoons: India starts on single-use plastic ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Cups, straws, spoons: India starts on single-use plastic ban

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. But India’s federal environment minister Bhupender Yadav said at a press briefing in New Delhi that the ban had been in the pipeline for a year. A nationwide …

Green Revolution 2.0: Starting Today, Bid Adieu to Plastic Straws & Cutlery as India Readies for Cleaner Future
2 years, 5 months ago

Green Revolution 2.0: Starting Today, Bid Adieu to Plastic Straws & Cutlery as India Readies for Cleaner Future

News 18  

It is clogging our cities, killing marine life, turning into an eyesore and getting increasingly cumbersome to get recycled. The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021, prohibit the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of a notified list of single-use plastic items, including straws, plastic cutlery and candy sticks, packaging on sweet boxes, cigarettes packets, invitation cards, polystyrene and expanded …

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 …

Single-use plastic to be banned in India from 1 July: What will be allowed and what won't?
2 years, 5 months ago

Single-use plastic to be banned in India from 1 July: What will be allowed and what won't?

Firstpost  

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said in order to ensure an effective ban on single-use plastic products, national and state-level control rooms will be set up to check illegal manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of these items Addressing the threat caused to the environment by single-use plastic products, India is set to ban the manufacture, …

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 …

Efforts on to contain plastic pollution off Kerala coast
2 years, 6 months ago

Efforts on to contain plastic pollution off Kerala coast

The Hindu  

As the world celebrated Ocean Day on Wednesday, the 24 fishing harbours in the State have come under the ‘Suchitwa Saagaram, Sundara Theeram’ campaign that was launched on a pilot basis at the Neendakara fishing harbour in Kollam under a State government initiative to clear the Kerala coastal sea waters and the coast of plastic waste accumulation. Sheik Pareeth, managing …

Government asks states to phase out single use plastics
2 years, 6 months ago

Government asks states to phase out single use plastics

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Centre has asked States to phase out single use plastic as soon as possible. Apart from several measures suggested by the Centre, States and Urban Local Bodies have also been advised to enter into MoUs with nearby cement plants or other industrial units to ensure that a part of the plastic waste is used either as alternative …

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 …

India to Ban Single-Use Plastic from July 1. Here’s How Other Nations are Tackling This Danger
2 years, 7 months ago

India to Ban Single-Use Plastic from July 1. Here’s How Other Nations are Tackling This Danger

News 18  

Being one of the culprits that contribute massively to global warming, single-use plastics have been choking not just drains but lives too. By adopting effective measures and pushing for the use of alternatives, 80 countries have been successful in bringing a full or partial ban on single-use plastic. Countries like Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Rwanda among others have …

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
2 years, 8 months ago

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.

New York Times  

Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing. Trash Drag each item where you think it belongs Milk jug Peanut butter jar Water bottle Shampoo bottle Snack bag Diaper Plastic bag Bubble mailer Foam cup Single-use utensil Yogurt cup Takeout container Berry box Recycling The universal symbol for recycling, known as the “chasing arrows” logo, is stamped on so many things. “We don’t …

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 …

Indian moves to phase out single-use plastic items by 2022: Here are all the plastic items that will be banned
3 years, 4 months ago

Indian moves to phase out single-use plastic items by 2022: Here are all the plastic items that will be banned

Firstpost  

India generates around 25,940 tonnes of plastic waste per day and approximately 9.46 million tonnes of plastic waste per year. Recently, in July 2021, when the Lok Sabha questioned Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Environment, about the phasing-out the schedule of SUP, he said that as per the draft notification, the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use …

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, …

Usage of banned plastic carry bags increases in Pune
3 years, 5 months ago

Usage of banned plastic carry bags increases in Pune

Hindustan Times  

The recent study by SWaCH and Pune Municipal Corporation supported waste pickers cooperative reports increased use of plastics, including banned carry bags. “Certain categories of plastic bags – non-woven PP bags have proliferated the market despite being banned especially at liquor stores.” Dr Ketki Ghatge, assistant medical officer of health, PMC solid waste management department said, “We are carrying out …

India Taking All Steps to Ensure it Becomes Free of Single-use Plastic by 2022: Prakash Javadekar
3 years, 6 months ago

India Taking All Steps to Ensure it Becomes Free of Single-use Plastic by 2022: Prakash Javadekar

News 18  

New Delhi, June 8: India is taking all steps to ensure that the country becomes free of single-use plastic by 2022 as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday while launching ‘Plastic Hackathon 2021’ campaign. Announcing the campaign, he said it will help finding suitable alternatives to SUP and identify new ways of …

Single-use Plastic Bioreactor Bags to Filters: Why India Needs Them From The US for COVID Vaccines
3 years, 7 months ago

Single-use Plastic Bioreactor Bags to Filters: Why India Needs Them From The US for COVID Vaccines

News 18  

After facing flak for blocking the supply of raw materials needed for COVID-19 vaccines being manufactured in India, the United States on Sunday said it would rush the materials needed by Indian vaccine manufacturers. One of the primary reasons India has been pressing the United States for the raw materials for the vaccines is because the US—although not the only …

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