CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The NGT mandated the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to implement this ban with help from the municipal corporations, which are in charge of waste management.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rwanda, like Kenya, has done away with the ‘plastic thickness game’ and issued a complete ban on carry bags, irrespective of the thickness. This implies that no plastic carry bag can be manufactured, used, imported or sold in the market.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published: Friday 31 December 1999. six months after it was first drafted, the Bill to ban the use of plastics was finally cleared by the Delhi government on December 2. The Bill, which will come into effect from December 24, has been assured of a safe passage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Three months after India imposed a ban on single use plastics (SUPs) to tackle plastic waste and worsening pollution, plastics are still in rampant circulation across the country. The ban includes almost 21 SUP items such as plates, cups, cutlery, straws, packaging films and cigarette packets.

Detailed explanation-5: -Further, Karnataka was the first State in the nation to ban single-use plastic in 2016 with the Plastic Waste Management Rules, ” said Shanth A.