The Punjab Government today decided to strictly implement the Punjab Plastic Bags (Manufacture, Usage and Disposal) Control Act, prohibiting the manufacture, disposal and use of polythene bags from May 1. Polythene bags are banned by New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh.
The DCs and the Director, Panchayat, have been told to issue instructions to panchayats and zila parishads to implement the ban. The violation of the Act by the manufacturer/ carrier/user will attract imprisonment for up to three months.
The civic bodies had been complaining of sewers being repeatedly choked by non-biodegradable polythene. Similarly, the Animal Husbandry Department had been complaining that stray cattle were dying after consuming waste polythene less than 30 micron lying in the dumping pits. Soil fertility was also getting affected with indiscriminate disposal of polythene in an unscientific manner.
According to the Act, non-biodegradable plastics have been listed as polyethylene terephthalat, high-density polyethylene, poly vinyl chlorine, low-density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polybutadiene trephthalate, acrilonitrile butadiene styrene and acrylic.
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