Draft Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021
On March 11, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) issued the draft Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2021 for handling India’s plastic waste.
Key Provisions
- It has extended the applicability of the rules to brand-owner, plastic waste processor, including the recycler, co-processor, etc.
- It will also include new definitions of: Non-woven plastic bag, Plastic waste processing, Single-use plastic (SUP) item, Thermoset plastic and Thermoplastic
- It has proposed increasing the thickness of carry bags made of virgin plastic to 120 microns from 50 microns.
- It also proposes a ban on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use ....
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