The BMC has not yet given shopkeepers a clear idea
Whate-ver information we have gathered is only from social gutter guards Suppliers media. Our team of inspectors would be visiting shops, malls, markets, hawkers, vendors to crack a whip on banned plastic, said a senior civic official. Sanjay Vichare, a shopkeeper from Bhandup, said, "The BMC has not yet given shopkeepers a clear idea of what is being banned and what is not.However, a majority of shopkeepers are still clueless about the implementation of the plastic ban.67 kg of banned plastic and collected a fine of Rs 3.35 lakh from offenders.Choudhari said more than 8,000 businesses had been searched in Mumbai alone and at least 700 kg of plastic seized.Plastic has also been blamed for blocking drains and contributing to flooding during Mumbais four-month-long summer monsoon.Mumbai: Burger King, McDonalds and Starbucks are among dozens of companies fined for violating a new ban on single-use plastics in Indias commercial capital Mumbai, an official said on Tuesday.
"The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, whose members include online retailers such as Amazon India and Flipkart, said in a June 7 letter to the state government that such a ban "will not be without its own share of adverse environmental impacts which are largely driven by issues associated with the use of alternatives".Beverage makers such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola, meanwhile, want an exemption from the rules as they mandate a buyback of empty bottles at a guaranteed price, which will raise غير مجاز مي باشدts, another source familiar with the talks said."Our demand to the government is: give the industry seven years to come up with alternatives," said Neemit Punamiya, general secretary of the Plastic Bags Manufacturers Association of India, who attended the meeting.Both officials declined to be named as the talks are not public.Representatives of companies including Amazon, H&M, Pepsi and Coca-Cola, as well as plastic industry bodies and lobby groups, met with Maharashtra government officials days before the ban came into effect on June 23, urging them to implement the rule in phases and relax some norms, said the four sources who declined to be named.
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