Following the footsteps of Tamil Nadu, the Puducherry government announced a total ban on manufacture, sale and storage of single-use plastics in the Union Territory.
About:
Meaning: Single-use plastics, often also referred to as disposable plastics, are commonly used for plastic packaging and include items intended to be used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.
Application: These include, among other items, grocery bags, food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups and cutlery
Benefits: Single-use plastic bags are widely used because they are strong, cheap and hygienic ways to transport goods.
Environmental impact: They can take up to thousands of years to decompose, contaminating soil and water, and posing significant ingestion, choking and entanglement hazards to wildlife on
land and in the ocean.
Recent developments:
In June 2018, on the occasion of World Environment Day, PM Narendra Modi announced that India will abolish all single-use plastic by 2022.
in June 2018, Tamil Nadu government had announced that it would ban the use of plastic items including non-biodegradable carry bags from January 1, 2019.
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