April 13, 2023 12:47 am |Updated April 14, 2023 09:18 pm IST - CHENNAI
The Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday reiterated that plastic carry bags used as ‘woven bags’ or ‘Ruffian bags’ are banned. “These single-use plastics are also banned. The manufacture, selling and distributing of these plastics is a violationas per the notification on ban on single use plastics issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu,” said a press release from TNPCB. Builder Bags
The TNPCB said, In a press release said that these single-use plastic items or disposable plastics are used only once before they are thrown away and littered. These littered plastics are of no value and cause a huge threat to living beings on land and marine life on waterbodies like such as lakes/rivers/sea and the ocean.
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