India banned the sale of plastic bags for the environment
The ban on the use of plastic bags will officially take effect next week. In particular, production facilities and trade in all kinds of plastic bags will be banned in the city area because this popular item is becoming a dangerous threat to environmental health.
New Delhi's government hopes that the ban on the circulation and use of all kinds of plastic bags in the inner city will help improve the environment at alarming levels.
The ban on the use of plastic bags will officially take effect next week. In particular, production facilities and trade in all kinds of plastic bags will be banned in the city area because this popular item is becoming a dangerous threat to environmental health.
According to Indian government regulations, all types of plastic bags that are used to store and store rubbish, including plastic films and packaging bags, are prohibited from circulation. Only medical waste plastic bags are still allowed.
The New Delhi government issued a restraining order
All plastic bags are effective from next week
However, the New Delhi city government does not say whether the ban comes with provisions in the law of environmental protection with a five-year jail sentence for any citizen who acts to discharge large amounts of bags. garbage out of the environment.
In 2009, the New Delhi government also banned people from using specialized plastic shopping bags. However, the ban does not seem to bring results because the authorities cannot control the habit which has been "deeply entrenched" in the daily activities of the people.
Typically, in Gurgaon city in the Indian state of Haryana, plastic bags are still circulated and sold on the streets despite the government ban banned since last year.
The fact is that plastic bags are negatively impacting the health of thousands of cows grazed in the city area by swallowing garbage bags during the process of finding food at open landfills. in New Delhi city.
In recent years, national governments and cities and large companies from many countries from South Africa to Mexico and the United Kingdom have also ordered a series of orders to limit the use of plastic bags.
In China, a report published in June this year pointed out that after four years prohibiting the use of plastic bags and ultra-thin bags at stores, the most populous country in the world. This has saved 4.8 million tons of oil - raw material for producing plastic bags, as well as reducing significant environmental pollution.
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