Kolkata: The use of a polybag that is prohibited continues on the market throughout the city on the day of the ban on a plastic bag thinner than 75 microns in.
State officials said they were seriously considering forcing a fine of the norm.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has begun to tell the market committee about the ban.
“We told the committee to ask traders to strictly avoid plastic bags thinner than 75 microns.
It took a few days to implement it,” said an officer of the Senior Market Department.
After being applied, the solid waste management department will carry out attacks on violations.
While Bangur has banned plastic bags many years ago, the only market that seems to have implemented a ban on Thursday is the CB block market in the new city action area I.
“Because notifications have been issued, we strive to make our plastic market.
Market What is used to produce 154kg thin plastic bags.
Starting on Thursday, there will be no, no, “said Sourav Mukherjee from Society Kolkata for a cultural heritage, which works with the authority of the new Kolkata Development.
Timesview using the right plastic is the next best choice if we can’t do it without a plastic bag at all.
Law must be carried out fairly and citizens must work together; This is for goodness with us.
Paper bags have been introduced for smaller number of materials, fabric bags for more severe things and starch bags for wet items, such as fish and meat.
The cost of each RS starch 2.
NKDA, which initiated a pilot study, subsidized to make it available to traders at 16P, the same as a thin 12 × 16-inch plastic bag.
Kolkata and neighboring areas, including Salt Lake and New Town, have become the worst patients with thin plastic poly strangling waterways, blocking the canal and cause severe inundation.
Various studies show that the volume of plastic dumped every day in Kolkata may be anything between 500 tons and 1,200 tons.
Studies also show that volume grows rapidly.
The government is also concerned about the adverse effects of using plastic products.
Ministry notifications in the regulations of plastic waste management amendments, 2021, have banned single plastic, including polystyrene polystyrene commodities and expanded, with the effect of July 1, 2022.
“If we are asked not to use a plastic bag, we will take us own bags.
But the merchant continues Give us a plastic bag even if we don’t ask for it, “said Ambika Gupta, a retired government official in Parnasree.
“The biggest problem is bringing fish.
We can’t bring it into a cloth bag, or in a porous nylon bag,” said Tuhina Sarkar, a housewife from Bhowanipore.
Plastic use continues in the Kolkata market even though there is a ban
