Chennai: Two years after plastic ban on single use was kicked throughout the state, Greater Chennai Corporation ‘not to mention’ intensify the raid by holding a meeting with trade associations and threatening to shop and cancel the trade license.
Last week, it sealed a shop and won 160kg plastic carrybags and other prohibited items.
Instead, the Tamil Nadu pollution control agency (TNPCB) and other government institutions such as RTOS have done a little to stop making plastic bags or stopping them from other countries.
One of the main obstacles in implementing the ban, said a corporate official, was a lack of consciousness.
“People still don’t know what is forbidden and what is not.
Two government orders, go no 84 and go no 37 passed.
But they continue to sell and buy prohibited plastic,” he said.
TNPCB is to stop the manufacture, committee form and ensure there are alternative ecosystems in the state, but have done a little valuable in this matter.
A TNPCB official told Tii Board ensured that no company produced bags and blamed civilian and rtos agencies for sales in the wholesale market.
Civic’s body said his role was only to stop him from being sold in wholesalers and retail outlets.
“We have done a raid, issued a notification and do what we can.
We need political will and support to implement it,” said an official.
The plastic ban began to apply on January 1, 2019, and until November 16, 2020, the corporation collected ₹ 1.31 years after winning 318 tons of goods banned after 4.5 lakh raids / inspection.
The election of assembly earlier this year and the next second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic stopped the raid.
The shop owner in Parry said a lot like he had shifted to alternative, but, “until a request, we will provide.” Vamsi Shankar Kapilavai, a senior researcher from the Citizens’ Action Group, said people need to get out of ‘exhaust’ culture that began with plastic entering the ecosystem.
“We need to change as a community and shift to trigger again,” he said.