After the government of Indias recent notification of the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2021, theGujaratgovernment has started the banning of single-use plastics and is taking action against manufacturers of single-use plastics and of plastics less than 75 microns thick.
The Union Government, by amending the rules, is banning the use and manufacture of plastics thinner than 75 microns (plastic bags thinner than 50 microns were banned earlier) in a phased manner, from September 25 to December 2022.
In the new rules the words fifty microns in thickness have been replaced with the words seventy five microns in thickness with effect from September 30, 2021 and one hundred and twenty (120) microns in thickness with effect from December 31, 2022.