Single-use plastic items to be banned from July 1 next year: Centre

Single-use plastic items to be banned from July 1 next year: Centre

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, August 13, 2021, 11:18 PM IST
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Single-use plastic items to be banned from July 1 next year: Centre | Photo: Pexels

New Delhi: The Centre has notified amended rules prohibiting manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items, including ice-cream sticks, plates, cups, cutlery, and packing films around boxes for sweets, and cigarette packets among others. The thickness of plastic carry bags will be increased from 50 microns to 75 microns from September 30, 2021, and to 120 microns from December 31, 2022, according to the notification dated August 12.

“The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of following single-use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect from July 1, 2022: ear buds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic flags, candy sticks, ice-cream sticks, polystyrene (thermocol) for decoration; plates, cups, glasses, cutlery such as forks, spoons, knives, straw, trays; wrapping or packing films around sweet boxes, invitation cards, and cigarette packets, plastic or PVC banners less than 100 micron, stirrers,” the notification read.

The Environment Ministry said plastic packaging waste not covered under the phase-out of identified single-use plastic items should be collected and managed in an environmentally sustainable way through the extended producer responsibility of the producer, importer and brand owner (PIBO) as per Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.

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