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single use plastic
• It refers to disposable plastics that are commonly used for plastic packaging and include items intended to be used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.
• There is a no fixed definition for single use plastic, and it varies from country to country (India is in process of giving statutory definition to single use plastic).
Steps taken
Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 (as amended in 2018)
• Defines minimum thickness of plastic carry bags i.e. 50 microns. This would increase the cost and the tendency to provide free carry bags would come down.
• Responsibility of local bodies: Rural areas are brought under the rules since plastic has reached rural areas as well. The gram sabhas have been given responsibility of implementation.
• Extended Producer Responsibility: Producers and brand owners have been made responsible for collecting waste generated from their products.
• Producers are to keep a record of their vendors to whom they have supplied raw materials for manufacturing. This is to curb manufacturing of these products in unorganised sector.
• Responsibility of waste generator: All institutional generators of plastic waste shall segregate and store their waste as per Solid Waste Management Rules, and handover segregated wastes to authorized waste disposal facilities.
• Responsibility of street vendors and retailers: Not to provide such carry bags or fine would be imposed. Only the registered shopkeepers on payment of a registration fee to local bodies would be allowed to give out plastic carry bags on charge.
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• Phasing out of Multi-layered Plastic (MLP) is applicable only to MLP that are “non- recyclable or non-energy recoverable or have no alternate use”.
• National Marine Litter Policy: To identify the source of litter, especially the plastic waste that flows into India’s coastal waters.
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Global steps
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) had declared the theme for World Environment Day 2018 as ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.
• G20 Implementation Framework for Actions on Marine Plastics Litter which is aimed at facilitating further concrete action on marine waste, though on a voluntary basis.
• UN Environment launched #CleanSeas campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter, microplastics in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic by the year 2022.
• The Honolulu Strategy: It is a framework for a comprehensive and global collaborative effort to reduce the ecological, human health, and economic impacts of marine debris worldwide.
• Global Tourism Plastics Initiative: aims to articulate, support and scale-up action by tourism stakeholders and is building a global alliance to fight plastic pollution.
It is part of the activities of the Sustainable Tourism Programme of the One Planet network and led by UN Environment and the World Tourism Organization, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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Additional Information
• Microplastics or Microbeads are plastic pieces or fibre, which is very small, generally measuring less than 1mm. They enter water bodies they accumulate as act as carriers for other pollutants. They carry carcinogenic chemical compounds in the food chain.
• Microplastics are present in a variety of products, from cosmetics to synthetic clothing to plastic bags and bottles.
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