App Launched by CPCB to Report Manufacturing, Stocking or Distribution of Single-Use Plastic.

To raise objections with regard to banned items like plastic, which will be prohibited from July 1, an app has been launched- ‘Single-use Plastic’ (SUP) by union environment minister Bhupendra Yadav. These boycotts are being executed under the new Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rule-2021, which looks for a skillet India restriction on single-utilize plastic at the assembling and supply levels. The guidelines, notwithstanding, had previously prohibited single-utilize plastic beneath thickness of 75 microns since September 2021. The things to be prohibited are earbuds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for inflatables, plastic banners, candy sticks, frozen yogurt sticks, polystyrene (thermocol) for decoration, plastic-made plates, cups, glasses, straw, wrapping or packing films around sweet boxes, greeting cards, and cigarette bundles, plastic, or PVC banners under 100 microns. The new principles will likewise boycott plastic sacks under 120 microns from December 31, 2022.

Plastic has become perhaps the most dangerous natural issues that we are confronting today. There are overflowing landfills in cities and contaminated water can be seen everywhere. India is creating around 3.5 million tons of plastic waste yearly and the per capita plastic waste age has nearly multiplied in the course of the most recent five years.

Minister of state, environment, Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated that the e-Governance portals of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) and CPCB such as the EPR portal and the mobile app for SUP grievance redressed launched would go a long way in ensuring complete phase-out of the single-use plastic.

With app, a dashboard has also been launched to track the elimination of SUP by all the stakeholders, central and state ministries.