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Interpreting the application of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 on exporters and export products

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The Prime Minister's Independence Day speech on 15 August, 2019 highlighted the growing menace of plastic pollution in India and gave a clarion call to free India from single-use plastics by 2022.

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Interpreting the application of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 on exporters and export products

The Prime Minister's Independence Day speech on 15 August, 2019 highlighted the growing menace of plastic pollution in India and gave a clarion call to free India from single-use plastics by 2022. On 12 August, 2021, in what was seen as a significant step towards achieving the Prime Minister's goal, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change ("MoEFCC") amended the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 ("Plastic Rules") to inter alia prohibit the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of specified single-use plastic commodities with effect from 01 July, 2022. These plastic items are ear buds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic plates, cups, glasses, cutlery, among others commodities having very low utility and high environmental impacts. These Plastic Rules have also increased the minimum thickness of plastic carry bags

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