Chennai: The day after Greater Chennai Corporation picked up a penalty on Indigo Airlines because it uses the forbidden plastic cover to provide facial shields, masks and cleaners, Civic’s body is ready to continue enforcing plastic product prohibitions.
An official said the drive was stopped because Covid.
From Monday, they will begin to punish shop owners and residents to use single plastic items, bags carry all types, plastic packaging items, plastic cups and thermocols, plates, spoons and other items on the list of products that have been banned by the Government State.
Plastic prohibitions come into force on January 1, 2019 and the Civic body has been collected, RS 1.31 Crore after capturing 318 MT forbidden plastic items after 4.5 lakh raids / inspection.
Until November 16, 2020, officials held an attack.
A recent study of Citizen Consumer and the Civic Action Group have pointed out how the plastic bag is developing at City Post Covid.
The researchers visited 1,936 retail stores and found a single plastic bag that was forbidden there.
50% of roadside restaurants and larger restaurants still use plastic containers for packaging.
And 63% of the local packaging material used in Tamil Nadu is a material that cannot be recycled.
Vamsi Kapilavai, a senior organizational researcher, told TII that with more plastic items to be banned from June 2022 by the central government, civilian bodies and state governments must ensure the forbidden goods were first removed from their replaced markets and alternatives.