Delhi Government to Engage With E-Commerce Firms Over Single-Use Plastic Ban

The Delhi authorities plans to interact with varied e-commerce companies and meals supply platforms, together with Zomato, Swiggy, Amazon and Flipkart, for efficient implementation of the ban on single-use plastic (SUP) gadgets within the capital, officers mentioned on Saturday.

These companies have an enormous enterprise in Delhi and it has solely elevated after the Covid pandemic, they mentioned, stressing that you will need to carry them on board to make sure that the marketing campaign is successful.

The authorities will probably be holding a roundtable convention with the e-commerce corporations together with different stakeholders like market associations, self-help teams, and industrial associations to encourage and promote use of alternate options to single-use plastics, officers mentioned.

Legal specialists, MCD, enforcement officers from DPCC may even be a part of the roundtable will probably be held underneath the chairmanship of Environment minister Gopal Rai, they mentioned.

The authorities is holding a ‘Plastic Vikalp Mela’ at Thyagraj Stadium, which is able to culminate on July 3 and the convention will probably be held on the venue, officers mentioned.

Interestingly, some on-line platforms have already began the idea of ‘plastic impartial deliveries’.

On August 12 final yr, the Union Environment Ministry had issued a notification prohibiting manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of recognized SUP commodities, together with polystyrene and expanded polystyrene from July 1, 2022.

The recognized SUP gadgets embody earbuds, plastic sticks for balloons, flags, sweet sticks, ice-cream sticks, polystyrene (thermocol), plates, cups, glasses, forks, spoons, knives, straws, trays, wrapping or packaging movies round sweets containers, invitation playing cards, cigarette packets, plastic or PVC banners of lower than 100 microns, and stirrers.

In Delhi, the Revenue Department and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee have constituted 33 and 15 groups, respectively, to make sure enforcement of the ban.

Delhi generates 1,060 tonnes of plastic waste per day. Single-use plastic is estimated to be 5.6 % (or 56kg per metric tonnes) of the overall strong waste within the capital.