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ARTICLE · 01 JULY 2022

July 1, 2022 – End To Plastic Menace In India?

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Early this year, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MEFCC) published Guidelines on Extended Producers Responsibility (the Guidelines) on...

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Analysis of EPR GUIDELINES, 2022 under The Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2022

Early this year, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MEFCC) published Guidelines on Extended Producers Responsibility (the Guidelines) on plastic packaging. The Guidelines have been introduced through the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 20221 and are set to come into effect from July 1, 2022. It imposes a ban on certain single-use plastic products having low utility and high littering potential. Its illustrated in the below diagram:

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In lieu of "Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsava" and to curtail pollution caused by the unmanaged plastic wastes generated across the country, the Department of Forest and Climate Change and the Government of India published the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2021 (Amendment) on 12 August 20212. Ban will be imposed on the plastics that are lesser in

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