Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bold plan to tackle single-use plastics has been scrapped. Rather than a blanket ban, the move is now being touted as an awareness campaign.
In a sweeping Independence Day address on August 15, Modi suggested that he would ban single-use plastic across the country from Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of the birth of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi."Can we take this first big step on October 2 towards making India free from single-use plastic? Come my countrymen, let us take this forward," Modi told a crowd of thousands gathered at Delhi's historic Red Fort for the annual Independence Day speech.
3 billion population, India consumed an estimated 15.5 million tons of plastic in 2016-17, according to Plastindia Foundation, an organization of major associations and institutions associated with plastic. That number is predicted to increase to 20 million tons by 2019-20.
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