A Resurgent India Needs to Beat Plastic

Dr. Sanjib Kumar Goswami

Environment, India, Plastic, Pollution, SUPs.

Covid -19 pandemic has paralyzed the priorities of a resurgent India. In zeroing its effort for a resurgent India, the manifold priorities need to be chalked out keeping a scope for additions and subtractions. One such addition of the priority list of a resurgent India needs to include long term policies in beating plastic pollution especially through avoiding single use plastic bag. Plastic pollution is used to compromise the safety of our food supplies, soils, water and wildlife. Single-use plastics (SUPs), or disposable plastics, are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. Central Pollution Control Board of India projected that an estimated 25,940 tons of plastic waste is generated across India every day. This is equivalent to 1,030 truckloads at 25 tons per truck. Much to relive of the Indian soil, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change , Government of India has notified that that there will be a blanket ban  on  single-use plastic items from 1 July, 2022.However, unless people are used to “Say No to Plastics”  becomes a habit of the people, it will only remain as a slogan only.

https://doi.org/10.31871/IJNTR.8.6.19