Plastic bags
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
Six months ago the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) had launched anti-plastic drive! However, the drive was not successful as there was no desired response from the residents of Mumbai. Later the NMMC levied hefty fines for the purchase of plastic bags even after this residents were least bothered and continued with the usage of [...] Continue Reading »
Residents in the city can now glee upon as you will be paid for used plastic bags. Compact Green Enterprises an NGO in Bangalore is all set ready to dash in a new mantra for re-using plastic bags. Suresh Tota, managing director of Compact Green Enterprises reported saying that public has got edict to plastic [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai has gone the green way and is saying no to plastic bags. Recently the Supreme Court had banned the normal plastic bags and with increased awareness the demand for biodegradable and compostable plastic bags are slowly on the rise. The apex court has put a ban on plastic bags that are less than 40 [...] Continue Reading »
To reduce the plastic menace, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to impose a ‘green tax’ on manufacturers of plastic. The tax will be collected by the sales tax department on behalf of the BMC and then deposited to the BMC. According to the proposal, the manufacturer has to recollect the plastic product and [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sold the 105 lakh kg of seized plastic bags to a private firm for Rs 25 lakh for recycling them to make thick plastic bags. The BMC had seized plastic goods products thinner than 50 microns in raids and stored them in 24 godowns across the city. After the deluge [...] Continue Reading »
