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DPCB board seals 24 unauthorised Ten single-use plastic items to be
plastic processing units banned in Pudducherry

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Tat least 24 illegal units which segregate and process Tbanning manufacture and sale of 10 single-use
plastic in villages in outer Delhi. Following a report plastic items from August 2 in Pudducherry, the
that illegal plastic segregation and melting units were Union Territory. Single use plastic materials such as
operating on residential and agricultural land in the polythene/plastic/polypropylene carrybags, polythene
same villages in outer Delhi and also in Haryana The plastic cups, polythene plastic plates, styrofoam
National Green Tribunal (NGT) came down heavily on the (thermocol) plates, styrofoam cups, plastic sheet
Delhi government on the issue. “Even though an action- pouches used to wrap cooked food, plastic sheets
used to spread on dining table, water pouches, plastic
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Friday ,August 2, 2019. The materials would not be
allowed to be manufactured, stocked or sold in the
Union Territory from the date of ban. However, plastic
items such as non-woven polypropylene bags, plastic-
coated paper cups, plastic sheet used for industrial
packing, plastic sheet used for packing of pulses,
cereals, medicine and milk, multi-layered packaging
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bag of more than 40 x 50 cm in size used for collection
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magnitude of violation. There is no serious exercise of and disposal of solid waste and biomedical waste and
assessing the cost of damage to the environment and the plastic bags used in horticulture nurseries would be
cost of restoration. It is also not clear whether the polluting allowed to be manufactured and sold in Puducherry,
DFWLYLWLHV KDYH EHHQ VWRSSHG µ WKH %HQFK KDG REVHUYHG the release said. N. Ramesh, Environmental Engineer,
Puducherry Pollution Control Committee (PPCC), told
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Police, Revenue Department and BSES visited about 10 The Hindu that they had excluded from the ban use of
villages including, Mundka, Tikri Kalan, and Nangloi, where QRQ ZRYHQ SRO\SURS\OHQH SDSHU FXSV DQG FOLQJ ÀOP
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operating mainly in plots with boundary walls. Twenty-
four units were sealed and their electricity connection
has been disconnected. Action would continue tomorrow
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the Delhi government for failing to crack down on illegal
plastic markets in Tikri Kalan in Delhi and nearby villages.
Last month , the NGT gave the State government a “last
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wise details of the action taken. The NGT, in its review to be banned. Justifying the decision to exclude the
meeting earlier had expressed its discontentment over
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poor implementation of the plastic ban order and waste was not a single use plastic item. The material can be
management. Making the district free from plastic and reused for at least six months. As for paper cups, the
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by the establishment alone
inside coating.

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