Single-use plastic ban and Eco-friendly alternatives

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The government of India has imposed a single-use plastic ban from 2^nd Oct 2019. With the decision, it has joined 60 more countries across the globe. The government aims to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022. In this article, let us have a look at what is single-use plastic, its effects, which are the eco-friendly alternatives available.

What is single-use plastic?

In simpler terms, single-use plastic is primarily made of petrochemicals. These products are disposables, used for a very short period of time, often minutes. Single-use plastic is most commonly used for packaging, water bottles, disposable cups, wrappers, straws, and food delivery packaging.

Why is single-use plastic bad for us?

On average, we produce 300 million tons of plastic every year. These plastics are not recycled. They end up in landfills, and more than half of them make way to the water bodies, threatening the lives of millions of sea animals. The other half goes further inside the earth and breaks into millions of bits of micro-plastics, polluting air, water and soil.

India alone generates 9.4 million tons of single-use plastic. With a very ineffective way of collection and recycling, these mostly end up in roadside, landfills, and water bodies posing a serious threat to the environment.

Banned single-use items

The single-use plastic ban covers 6 broad categories of plastic items. These categories include plastic covers (bags), plastic straws, plastic cups, plastic plates, small plastic bottles, plastic food packaging, and certain types of plastic sachets.

With the ban imposed on these items, the industries are looking out for eco-friendly packaging alternatives. The government is in discussion with the bottled water association to come up with an alternative solution.

Which are the eco-friendly alternatives?

Most of these items are easily replaceable and eco-friendly alternatives are already available. We at Aecoz offer a complete range of eco-friendly alternatives for food packaging solutions. We manufacture a wide variety of disposable eco-friendly packaging, from 50ml paper cups to 1000 ml paper containers. With the rise in global climate concerns, the single-use plastic ban is extremely important. We urge all industries and individuals to choose wisely and go for eco-friendly alternatives, wherever possible and support the single-use plastic ban in large numbers.

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