India bans single use plastic items from 1st July
28 June 2022 Ministry
of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 28 June has notified that
govt will ban identified single use plastic items across the country
from 1 July.
“India will 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, 2022," it said in a statement.
Single-use plastic are those items that are used only once and discarded.
The
adverse impacts of littered single use plastic items plastic on both
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, including in marine environment are
globally recognized.
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