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Sensational! One-time-use-and-throw plastic items are banned totally throughout India!!
Posted on: 29/Jun/2022 11:36:34 AM
The Central Ministry of Environment has announced that the usage of 1-time-use-and-throw plastic items is banned throughout the country from 1st July!
The usage of plastic items was banned for the first time in India in the State of Himachal Pradesh in the year 2009! Subsequently, the states of Rajasthan, Jammu Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and other states followed up with a banning order for the usage of plastic items!
Later, the States of Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Odisha, and West Bengal also banned the use of plastic items. The neighbouring state of Kerala banned the usage of plastic items in the year 2020!
Tamil Nadu imposed a ban on the ‘1-time-use-and-throw’ plastic items (plastic bags and polythene covers) in the year 2019. Subsequently, the State Government of Punjab also banned the ‘1-time-use-and-throw’ plastic item on 5th June!
In this scenario, the Central Ministry for Environment, Forestry, and climate change has announced that the usage of 1-time-use-and throws plastic items which are less used but cause the maximum pollution, the manufacture of the 1-time-use plastic items, import of the same, the stock on hand, distribution of the same, ARE BANNED FROM 1ST JULY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY!
The Central Environment Minister, Bhupendar Yadhav shared in this regard that the central government has given sufficient time to get rid of the usage of the above plastic items!
