New Delhi: This center has notified the changed rules forbidding, import, stocking, distribution, sales and use of single-identified plastic items, including plates, cups, cutlery, and packing films around the candy and cigarette boxes.
The thickness of the plastic carrying bag will be increased from 50 microns to 75 microns from September 30, 2021, and up to 120 microns from December 31, 2022, according to the August 12 notification.
“Making, Distribution, Sales and Using the following single use plastic use, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities must be prohibited from the effect of July 1, 2022: Kuncup eggs with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic flags, candy sticks, polystyrene (thermokol) for Decoration; dishes, cups, glasses, cutlery such as forks, spoons, knives, straw, trays; wrappers or packing films around the sweet box, invitation cards, and cigarette packages, plastic or pvc banners of less than 100 microns, stirrer “Read Notifications .
In a statement, the Ministry of Environment said plastic packaging waste which was not included under the phase-out of a single plastic item that was identified must be collected and managed in an environmentally sustainable way through the responsibilities of an extended manufacturer, importers and brand owners (PIBO ) In accordance with plastic waste management regulations, 2016.
For effective implementation of expanded producer’s responsibilities, the guidelines brought have been given legal power through the rules that are amended, he said.
The responsibility of the expanded producer is a policy approach in which the producer is responsible for the management of disposal of the product they produce after the product is set as no longer useful by consumers.