The Single use Plastic Ban An Innovative Initiative for Environmental Protection

Prime Minister Narendra Modi first announced that single use plastics would be banned on 15 August 2019. Subsequently, a notification for the ban was issued in August 2021, mandating the formation of task forces in states and at the Centre to oversee its pan India implementation. The Centre has banned the use of -‘single use plastic' from July 1, 2022. The Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change had issued a gazette notification last year announcing the ban, and has now defined a list of items that will be banned from next month. “The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of following single use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect from the 1st July, 2022,'' says the Ministry notification. As the name suggests, it refers to plastic items that are used once and discarded. Single use plastic has among the highest shares of plastic manufactured and used — from packaging of items, to bottles shampoo, detergents, cosmetics , polythene bags, face masks, coffee cups, cling film, trash bags, food packaging etc. The items on which the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB have announced a ban are earbuds balloon sticks candy and ice cream sticks cutlery items including plates, cups, glasses, forks, spoons, knives, trays sweet boxes invitation cards cigarette packs PVC banners measuring under 100 microns and polystyrene for decoration. Dr. Maya Agarwal "The Single use Plastic Ban: An Innovative Initiative for Environmental Protection" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd51918.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/business-administration/51918/the-single-use-plastic-ban-an-innovative-initiative-for-environmental-protection/dr-maya-agarwal