Even as India moves to complete ban single use plastic and reduce the use of other types, one wonders how will states like Punjab with their voracious appetite fir this harmful material cope up. To understand why the issue could snowball into a major crises for the state one only needs to look at the annual report of the central pollution control board (CPCB) which has recorded a staggering 143 times increase in the plastic waste generation in last four years. From 37778 tonnes of plastic waste generated in Punjab in 2014, the figure skyrocketed to 54,006 tonnes in 2018.
*The jump was largely because of increase in consumption of single use and disposable plastic products. Of total plastic waste, about 50% was single use products such as bottles, plastic bags, packaging material, plates and cups.
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