Plastic Waste Rules

India generates around 3.4 million tonnes (MT) of plastic waste, a report said on Wednesday noting that only 30 per cent of it is recycled

Plastics industry groups have called for a focus on recycling

Control rooms to be set up for implementation of the ministry order, says Bhupinder Yadav

All waste dumping sites in India will be converted into green zones in the next 2-3 years, said PM Modi while digitally inaugurating Asia's largest Bio-CNG plant in MP's Indore, on Saturday.

The government has issued a draft regulation under which there can be a ban on single use plastic for candy & ice cream stick, film wraps around sweet boxes and cigarette packets, etc.

Plastic processors say that is much thicker than global standards

Led by top beverage makers - PepsiCo Holdings, Coca-Cola India, and Bisleri International - the programme is a producer-led-and-owned plastic waste management venture, a first of its kind

The government is now working on curbs for untreated plastic waste, mostly produced by FMCG entities

"All major sources of municipal solid waste generation - hotels, restaurants, slaughter houses, vegetable markets etc. should be directed to provide segregated waste and handover the same to the Corporation in accordance with rules.

Centre bans plastic bags below 50 micron thickness; producers to take back plastic products