Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016

The plastic carry bags are the biggest contributors of the littered waste and every year, millions of plastic bags end up in the environment viz-a-viz soil, water bodies, water courses, and it takes an average of one thousand years to decompose completely.

• Therefore, to address the issue of scientific plastic waste management, new regulations namely, the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 were notified in 2011 which included plastic waste management.
• However, the implementation of these rules was not so effective because their ambit was limited to notified municipal areas whereas today, the plastic has reached our rural areas also. ....