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Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2024
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- The Environment Ministry has introduced new set of amendments to India’s Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2024.
- It defines the biodegradable plastics as not only capable of “...degradation by biological processes in specific environment such as soil, landfill...” but also as materials that do not leave “any microplastics...”
- Biodegradable plastic involves plastic goods being treated before they are sold.
- When discarded, the material is expected to decompose naturally over time though there are no tests yet to determine if such plastics completely degrade.
- Compostable plastics, on the other hand, do degrade, but require industrial or large municipal waste management facilities to do so.
- Microplastics are defined as any solid plastic particle insoluble in water, with dimensions between 1 µm and 1,000 µm (1 µm is one-thousandth of a millimetre).
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