NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Even as the world celebrated Tuesday as International No Plastic Bag Day and Maharashtra going hammer and tongs at the ban on plastics, a an identical prohibition in Uttar Pradesh enforced since January 2016 has failed to show indicators of good fortune.
Despite the ban within the state, usage of polythene luggage not up to 40 microns in stores has nonetheless now not stopped within the industrial cities of Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. At least 10% of all litter from these cities constitutes plastic, which quantities to around 80-90 tonnes consistent with day, as consistent with to be had numbers.
While the 2 district administrations declare they have been lively in looking to curb plastic bag usage, anti-pollution officers say the government must prevent polythene bag influx into the cities from around the district border for higher implementation of the ban. In fact, the plastic ban was reinforced in January 2017, and the state govt is now set to reimpose it once once more, beginning mid-July this year.
“In Noida and Greater Noida, we've got averted any plastic bag manufacturer to start operations. So plastic luggage are obviously now not made here. To deliver a 100% control on usage of plastic luggage in Noida and Greater Noida, cross-border switch of the similar has to prevent,” a senior respectable of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board informed TOI.
Some top district officers attributed the failure of the plastic ban to “lack of choices”. “Plastic usage enforcement in Ghaziabad has now not been a hit basically because of a lack of enforcement mechanisms. When the ban was reimposed remaining year, we tried to enforce it, but other people returned to the usage of the baggage because of lack of choices,” said CP Singh, commissioner of Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam.
The existing norms make it obligatory for violators to pay up a wonderful of Rs five,000 upfront if caught the usage of plastic luggage under authorized specs.
Responding to the current name to impose an absolute ban on plastic usage, Uttar Pradesh Vyapar Mandal president SK Jain said, “Production of plastic luggage itself is a trade. There is a necessity for raise luggage at maximum retail stores and until a viable alternative is created, the usage of plastic luggage cannot be stopped.”
District Justice of the Peace of Gautam Budh Nagar, BN Singh, alternatively, said that stable checks and wonderful impositions were performed within the district for the previous several months.
Despite the ban within the state, usage of polythene luggage not up to 40 microns in stores has nonetheless now not stopped within the industrial cities of Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. At least 10% of all litter from these cities constitutes plastic, which quantities to around 80-90 tonnes consistent with day, as consistent with to be had numbers.
While the 2 district administrations declare they have been lively in looking to curb plastic bag usage, anti-pollution officers say the government must prevent polythene bag influx into the cities from around the district border for higher implementation of the ban. In fact, the plastic ban was reinforced in January 2017, and the state govt is now set to reimpose it once once more, beginning mid-July this year.
“In Noida and Greater Noida, we've got averted any plastic bag manufacturer to start operations. So plastic luggage are obviously now not made here. To deliver a 100% control on usage of plastic luggage in Noida and Greater Noida, cross-border switch of the similar has to prevent,” a senior respectable of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board informed TOI.
Some top district officers attributed the failure of the plastic ban to “lack of choices”. “Plastic usage enforcement in Ghaziabad has now not been a hit basically because of a lack of enforcement mechanisms. When the ban was reimposed remaining year, we tried to enforce it, but other people returned to the usage of the baggage because of lack of choices,” said CP Singh, commissioner of Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam.
The existing norms make it obligatory for violators to pay up a wonderful of Rs five,000 upfront if caught the usage of plastic luggage under authorized specs.
Responding to the current name to impose an absolute ban on plastic usage, Uttar Pradesh Vyapar Mandal president SK Jain said, “Production of plastic luggage itself is a trade. There is a necessity for raise luggage at maximum retail stores and until a viable alternative is created, the usage of plastic luggage cannot be stopped.”
District Justice of the Peace of Gautam Budh Nagar, BN Singh, alternatively, said that stable checks and wonderful impositions were performed within the district for the previous several months.
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