EFFECTS OF PLASTIC BAN ON INDIAN ECONOMICS

Effects Of Plastic :-The first thing you notice about the waste-collection centre is the absence of stink you associate with mounds of garbage. That’s because this municipal corporation facility at Malad in suburban Mumbai is only for segregated dry waste.

It’s around noon on a weekday and two trucks, which have collected rubbish from around the neighbourhood, are being unloaded as a third one pulls in. There’s everything from a mattress to a travel bag in the trash that was dumped here a few days ago.

AS  RESEARCHERS SAYS THAT:

BIG REASON TO WORRY, there are process that recycles the plastic wast but the real problem is with single used plastic or which is called as disposable plastic waste 

Three workers look for recyclable plastic in the refuse, including packaged water bottles and soft drink bottles, and shampoo and hand wash containers, which will later be sent to a recycling unit. These plastics are shredded and turned into clothing, toys and trash cans, among others. But there is a lot of plastic here that cannot be recycled & the most common is multilayered plastic (MLP) packaging, used for chips, biscuits, chocolates, etc.

In June 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India would eliminate single-use plastics by 2022.This movement is run to reduce the bad effects of plastic. Canada and the European Union have since said they would get rid of some single-use plastics by 2021.

But my question to all 

my viewers that is it possible for one man to achieve this target ?

EFFECTS OF PLASTIC BAN ON BUSINESS

Modi reiterated his position last month when he called for the first big step in the fight against disposable plastic to be taken on October 2, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Since that statement, there has been a lot of speculation on whether the government will ban or announce a phasing out of some single-use plastics on that day.

How hard will it be to implement a plastic ban? What are the effects of plastic ban ? What will it mean for businesses and consumers? Will they find a way around it? According to Reuters, the government could ban six items, including bags, cups, straws and certain sachets. Another news report pegged the number of items to be outlawed at twice as many. These reports have pushed industry lobbies to issue statements highlighting the adverse impact of a ban and to take out advertisements in newspapers in defence of plastic

This is according to a report published on the THE ECONOMIC TIMES ON SUNDAY (22-09-2019).

Some business are against this as this will cost a hug loss in terms of production and that leads to job losses ,

and there are some other business owners that try to find an alternative way of doing business.

EFFECTS OF PLASTIC  : USE & RE-USE

A key step in that direction was Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, which were amended last year. As part of EPR, producers, importers and brand owners — like fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and pharma companies — are supposed to take back the plastic waste generated by their products, with the help of waste-management companies like Ahmedabad-based Nepra Resource Management. Nepra works with the likes of Nestle, PepsiCo and Colgate to Colgate to collect plastic waste from collection centres like the one at Malad in Mumbai.

Sandeep Patel, cofounder of Nepra, says that despite MLP being non-recyclable, the government cannot ban it since there is no alternative yet .

“Companies are trying to shift to single-polymer packaging, which would make it recyclable.” Global FMCG giants UnileverNSE 8.66 % and Nestlé plan to have 100 per cent recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025.

Hindustan Unilever, the Indian arm of Unilever, collected and disposed of more than 20,000 tonnes of MLP waste in partnership with nonprofits and startups in more than 30 cities across India, and plans to expand it to more cities, says a company spokesperson.

WOMAN'S PLAZA a new startup from the city jamshedpur which works as e- retail in the field of fashion industry as taken an initiative to use paper bags for the product delivery.

THE CHALLENGE

While India is one of 63 countries with EPR, its guidelines for the same continue to be vague, says Roshan Miranda, cofounder of Hyderabad-based Waste Ventures. “There isn’t much clarity on how much of single-use plastic a company puts out needs to be taken back by it,” he says. Afroz Shah, a lawyer and environmental activist known for his beach clean-up drive in Mumbai, concurs. “There is no mechanism to implement EPR.” Around 95 per cent of the trash he and his volunteers pick up on beaches is disposable plastic.

Even if the government chooses to ban certain plastics, there is a big question mark on how effective it will be. “Plastic is cheap and convenient, and as long as there is demand for it, people are going to manufacture it,” says Abhijit Bangar, Nagpur’s municipal commissioner

A national ban will have to be enforced by local bodies. Bangar says that unlike urban local bodies, gram panchayats may not have the resources to do routine checks on plastic use. Maharashtra is among the 23 states that have fully or partially banned plastic bags, but that has not stopped people from using them.

As a matter of fact that five years after Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission, only 56 per cent of our urban solid waste is processed and only two-thirds of the wards have 100 per cent segregation of waste at source shows that implementing a plastic ban is going to be far from easy.

There is also no clear evidence that curbs on plastic use have the desired results. A 2018 analysis by the United Nations Environment Programme of bans and levies on plastic bags and Styrofoam in 60 countries found that there was not enough data available on their impact in half the cases. In 30 per cent of cases, there was a drop in usage of those products, but in 20 per cent , there was little to no impact. Emails sent to the Environment Ministry did not elicit a response.

WHAT WE CAN DO TO CREATE AN CLEANER ENVIRONMENT ?

The government will do his part of the job, the real question is what we can do to make it successful.

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Are  you guys expecting the ans from me? ☺😁 As if you don't know. There is nothing new convey

• Dont use MLP products 
• Re-use the plastic products if you can 
• Use carry bags made of cloths or paper..etc

What else i should say ,You know better then me but the problem is that knowledge won't solve problems "implementation " Do. So, implement your  knowledge and make a plastic free  INDIA for the next generation.