CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -More than 88,000 companies in India produce single-use plastic products. These companies employ about one million people. The Maharashtra government has become the first state in the country to ban single-use plastic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The government has banned the manufacture, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items like plates, cups, straws, trays, and polystyrene from July 1, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yes, use of plastic bags causes various problems like water pollution and water logging and hence, it is necessary to ban it.

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.