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 owners of hotels, restaurants, commercial establishments and vendors have been asked to submit an undertaking on no use of plastic and later, a drive would be launched to check, seize and challan the violators. Earlier, the district administration had launched campaigns like rice-for-plastic and free distribution of cloth and jute bags, besides roping in college students to take forward the drive against single-use plastic in the district.

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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 …

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 …

Allow manufacture and sale of biodegradable carry bags in Karnataka: Minister
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Allow manufacture and sale of biodegradable carry bags in Karnataka: Minister

The Hindu  

Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has asked officials to allow the manufacturing, stocking, and sale of biodegradable vegetable polymer bags which dissolve within six months. Presiding over a meeting of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Mr. Khandre said that single-use plastic bags are harmful to the environment and stressed the need for biodegradable products as an alternative to single-use plastic …

A ban on single-use plastics takes effect in Hong Kong in a bid to reduce pollution
8 months ago

A ban on single-use plastics takes effect in Hong Kong in a bid to reduce pollution

Associated Press  

HONG KONG — Hong Kong has long been a major producer and consumer of great food, and a great amount of plastic and Styrofoam to go with it. A pedestrian carries takeaway food plastic bags in Hong Kong, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. A customer collects a takeaway food plastic bag at Kuen Fat Kitchen in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 10, …

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 …

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 …

Man Cycling to Bangladesh from Daman and Diu with Message to Shun Single-use Plastic
2 years, 3 months ago

Man Cycling to Bangladesh from Daman and Diu with Message to Shun Single-use Plastic

News 18  

Accompanied by daughters, seven-year-old Shreya and four-year-old Yukti, Anil Chauhan has cycled 11,000 km from Daman and Diu to Lucknow. Asked why he was undertaking such an arduous journey with his two daughters, Chauhan, a widower, said his mission was to stop the death of cows due to single-use plastic. ”Most of the cows in the country die by eating …

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 …

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 …

One Plate Poha For 1kg Plastic: Cafe Where You Can Pay With Waste Opens Up in Gujarat
2 years, 5 months ago

One Plate Poha For 1kg Plastic: Cafe Where You Can Pay With Waste Opens Up in Gujarat

News 18  

As of July 1, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has prohibited the manufacture, import, stocking, and sale of single-use plastic. Following the nationwide ban, a café in Gujarat has come up with an amazing way to tackle the plastic waste. The district administration of Junagadh is set to inaugurate a café called Natural Plastic Cafe, where they …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Aiming for ‘zero waste,’ L.A. backs new restrictions on plastic food ware
2 years, 7 months ago

Aiming for ‘zero waste,’ L.A. backs new restrictions on plastic food ware

LA Times  

The City Council unanimously approved more than a dozen measures Wednesday to tighten restrictions on plastic bags, utensils, food containers and other disposables with a goal of making Los Angeles a “zero waste” city. “In all of these things our objective is not just to have changes made in city of Los Angeles, but to lead the way for the …

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 …

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 …

Centre Notifies Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules To Prohibit Single-Use Items By 2022 | Know Details
3 years, 4 months ago

Centre Notifies Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules To Prohibit Single-Use Items By 2022 | Know Details

ABP News  

New Delhi: The Union Government on Friday notified 'Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021' with the aim to prohibit identified single-use plastic items by next year, considering their adverse effects on the environment. Direction To States & UTs The Ministry further stated that the waste management infrastructure in the States/UTs is being strengthened through the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' and the …

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, …

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