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THE ALL INDIA PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION
Office of the President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 03, 2018

Plastic Ban poses stakeholder to break, AIPMA fears many more may follow.

Ever since the Plastic Ban was imposed in Maharashtra, there was a lot of opposition to it from the industry.
The imposition of this Ban has resulted in loss of revenue on a large scale. Many manufacturers have been

pushed towards bankruptcy overnight and lakhs of individuals have lost their jobs. In between this chaos, loss
of life of a Plastic Stakeholder has been reported. AIPMA, who has been leading this fight against the Ban
fears that such untoward incidents may follow if the Ban is not revoked in time. After numerous requests to

withdraw the ban, AIPMA has finally opted to take legal stand against the Ban.

The court case in Hon. High Court, Mumbai came up for hearing under the Hon. Judge Shri. A.S.Oka and Shri.

Riyaz Iqbal Chagla. The court case was to challenge the Plastic Ban Order Notification Dt. 23.03.2018, where
petitions filed by various other associations’ viz. MPMA and PACE were clubbed together with the petition

filed by AIPMA. The Maharashtra Government has asked for time to reply to the above petition. Hence the
Hon. High Court has directed them to file their reply by 9 of April, 2018 and the matter is to be heard on the
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11 April 2018 at 03.00 pm.
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All other affected industries and retail chains have sent their support against this ban on Plastic Products. On
the other side Banned Plastic product vendors have shut their shops and common man is suffering the most as
they are not able to get basic day to day food products like milk (from small dairies), vegetables, fish, groceries,

fruits and various other daily food items which were earlier supplied in plastic bags or containers. Retail shops
which used to do local packaging have stopped the packaging and are supplying lose which is leading to a

contaminated supply.

If the Government maintains its stand, the industry will be left with no other alternative but to resort to mass
protest.

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