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- The Central government is all set to ban the use of single-use plastic from July 1, 2022.
- Those violating single use plastic ban can be penalized under the Environment Protection Act 1986.
- It allows for imprisonment up to 5 years, a penalty up to Rs. 1 lakh, or both.
- The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change had notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021.
- These rules were notified to prohibit specific single-use plastic items, that have “high littering potential and low utility” by 2022.
- As per rules, manufacturing, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic will be banned.
- It is including the polystyrene and expanded polystyrene.
- This ban will not be applicable to commodities made of compostable plastic.
- Permitted thickness of the plastic bags have been increased to 75 microns, from 50 microns, starting from September 30, 2021 and to 120 microns from December 31, 2022.
- As per the Plastic Waste Management Rules of 2016, there is also a complete ban on sachets using plastic material for storing, packing, or selling Gutkha, tobacco, and pan masala
- The Central Pollution Control Board, and state pollution bodies, are the monitoring authority.
- They will monitor the ban, identify violations, and impose penalties that have been under Environmental Protection Act, 1986
- In India, 9.46 million tonnes of plastic waste are generated every year.
- Out of which 43% is single use plastic.
- As per the report published in 2021, the single use plastics account for a third of all plastic produced globally.
- In which, 98% manufactured from fossil fuels.
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