CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change had issued a gazette notification last year announcing the ban, and has now defined a list of items that will be banned from next month.

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: -To phase out select SUP items by 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, on 12 August 2021.

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.