The Centre on Friday notified stringent plastic waste management rules to regulate use of the hazardous material and handle the waste generated by it. Besides, it also banned use of plastic carry bags of less than 50 microns in thickness as against the existing norms of less than 40 microns.
Be it manufacturers, shopkeepers, street vendors or waste generators including individuals, institutions and organisers of big events like political rallies, religious gatherings and marriage or similar other functions, the government under the new rules enlisted certain 'dos' and 'don'ts' for everyone and introduced a concept of "user fee" and "waste management fee" at different levels.
Under the new rules, which are to be implemented within six months, the violators will have to pay penalty for not disposing of plastic waste in the prescribed manner. The amount of fine for the violators will be decided by the local civic bodies.
Be it manufacturers, shopkeepers, street vendors or waste generators including individuals, institutions and organisers of big events like political rallies, religious gatherings and marriage or similar other functions, the government under the new rules enlisted certain 'dos' and 'don'ts' for everyone and introduced a concept of "user fee" and "waste management fee" at different levels.
Under the new rules, which are to be implemented within six months, the violators will have to pay penalty for not disposing of plastic waste in the prescribed manner. The amount of fine for the violators will be decided by the local civic bodies.
"The Centre, on its part, will not renew registration of producers\manufacturers unless they come out with an action plan for setting up plastic waste management system," said environment minister Prakash Javadekar while sharing details of the rules.
If the new rules are properly implemented by municipal bodies in urban areas and gram panchayats in rural areas, shopkeepers, street vendors and users of plastic carry bags will have to move to bags of non-plastic material.
Shopkeepers and street vendors, willing to provide plastic carry bags to their customers, will now have to get themselves registered with local body on payment of 'plastic waste management fee' of minimum Rs 48,000 per annum (Rs 4000 per month).
"The imposition of plastic waste management fee on retailers and street vendors will force them to collect cost on carry bags which, in turn, will make the public to either switch over to other bags or reuse of carry bags," said a note of the environment ministry.
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