Maharashtra allows plastic packaging for milk pouches for now

Information technology is a big relief for milk consumers in Maharashtra as the government has agreed to accept a lenient view and allow the employ of plastic pouches for packaging of milk until farther notice. While the plastic ban in Bombay was welcomed by the people and environmentalists in general, the condition of recycling enforced on those manufacturing plastic bags for packaged milk caused an alarming shortage of milk in the maximum city.

Manufacturers were not ready to take the entire responsibility of preparing and post-obit the extended producers' responsibility because they just supply films to dairies which then make milk pouches. As per rules, manufacturers or producers must submit the EPR programme, including modalities of a waste product collection system, to the urban development department for approval. The Maharashtra Plastic Manufacturers' Association in a letter to dairies conveyed its decision to suspend supply of plastic films in view of ongoing actions against the manufacture. The determination was taken for not preparing an extended producers responsibility by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Lath.

Maharashtra's dairy sector had threatened to append sale of milk in plastic pouches from 15 December 2018, resulting the country surroundings minister Ramdas Kadam to call a meeting of the dairy sector to find a solution on this consequence. The meeting was attended by dairy representatives, dairy development minister and environment department officials to resolve bug related to EPR and use of pouches. Kadam made it clear that the section has not banned plastic manufacturers from supplying plastic moving picture for packaging of milk and therefore the dairy sector should keep to supply milk in pouches as earlier.

Kadam said milk suppliers have only been told to ensure a proper 'buyback' scheme of used pouches, which they accept not yet done. He said that milk pouches must have a eolith of 50 paise to Rs 1 each, and in one case empty, they take to exist returned by customers for recycling in lieu of the deposit.

Simply that is not beingness done. The state regime has given 2 months extension to set a recycling machinery for the used pouches. The next meeting has been scheduled for 15 Feb 2022 with the dairy sector, plastic picture manufacturers and the surround section officials to take stock of the situation and discuss ways and means to overcome the extended producer responsibility issue.

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