The plastic carry bags are the biggest contributors to the littered waste. Every year, millions of plastic bags end up in the environment on land, soil, water bodies, which take an average of one thousand years to decompose completely.
To address the issue of scientific plastic waste management, new regulations namely, the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 were notified in 2011 with an aim to improve plastic waste management. However, the implementation of these rules was not effective as their scope was limited to notified municipal areas and excluded rural areas of the country.
