Plastic ban drawing

Today, concerns around climate change and global warming have led to increas ed awareness among people to preserve and conserve nature . A small step taken towards this effort goes a long way in building a sustainable future for the next generation. Plastic pollution is one of the most persistent problems of today. The Indian Union environment ministry announced the ban of single-use plastic items from July 1st, 2022, which includes wrapping or packaging films, plastic cutlery, straws, and plastic sticks for balloons and ear buds and more. Here is what you can use to play your part in making your daily-life and travel, plastic free. Biodegradable cutlery The simplest products to start with, in contributing to a plastic free environment are these Biodegradable cutlery. There is no need to use plastic spoons and forks when you can replace them with bamboo. This kit is easy to use and is travel friendly as well. These products are born from nature, and go back to nature as well. Bamboo Toothbrushes Bamboo toothbrushes are an eco-friendly alternative, since the product is developed from bamboo which is a natural plant. Hence it becomes a fully biodegradable and sustainable product to use. This Bamboo Bristle Toothbrush is ergonomically designed to keep up with your oral hygiene. It also helps in eliminating the use of plastic toothbrushes that cause harm to our planet. This bamboo brush by Almitra is a good pick for those just starting out with eco-friendly products. Neem wood...

As dawn breaks out over New Delhi, 15-year-old Alamgir Munna picks up his thela (cart) and heads out for work, such that it is. At an age when he should be in school, the young ragpicker sifts through heaps of garbage for scraps of salable plastic and metals at the Okhla landfill, one of the three giant dumping grounds in the sprawling Indian capital, which produces about Munna makes a pittance, about 500 rupees, or $7, a day for his back-breaking work. Even that sad apology for a livelihood is about to disappear as India is set to implement a ban starting July 1 on single-use plastics, which are used to make items like earbuds, lollipop sticks, polystyrene packets, plates, cups, spoons, packaging wraps, cigarette packs and stirrers, among the other items of daily use that populate our life. Manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of these items made of single-use plastics which have “low utility and high littering potential” will not be allowed anymore, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Penalties include up to five years in jail, 100,000 rupees ($1,200) or both. Vijay Pandey—Picture Alliance/Getty Images Like many other migrants who clean after the city’s leftovers, Munna is contemplating leaving Delhi and returning to his village. With the ban looming and no alternative livelihood in sight, he is bracing for an uncertain economic future—along with the rest of India’s 5 million ragpickers, equivalent to Ireland’s total...

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Today, concerns around climate change and global warming have led to increas ed awareness among people to preserve and conserve nature . A small step taken towards this effort goes a long way in building a sustainable future for the next generation. Plastic pollution is one of the most persistent problems of today. The Indian Union environment ministry announced the ban of single-use plastic items from July 1st, 2022, which includes wrapping or packaging films, plastic cutlery, straws, and plastic sticks for balloons and ear buds and more. Here is what you can use to play your part in making your daily-life and travel, plastic free. Biodegradable cutlery The simplest products to start with, in contributing to a plastic free environment are these Biodegradable cutlery. There is no need to use plastic spoons and forks when you can replace them with bamboo. This kit is easy to use and is travel friendly as well. These products are born from nature, and go back to nature as well. Bamboo Toothbrushes Bamboo toothbrushes are an eco-friendly alternative, since the product is developed from bamboo which is a natural plant. Hence it becomes a fully biodegradable and sustainable product to use. This Bamboo Bristle Toothbrush is ergonomically designed to keep up with your oral hygiene. It also helps in eliminating the use of plastic toothbrushes that cause harm to our planet. This bamboo brush by Almitra is a good pick for those just starting out with eco-friendly products. Neem wood...

License and Republishing World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

As dawn breaks out over New Delhi, 15-year-old Alamgir Munna picks up his thela (cart) and heads out for work, such that it is. At an age when he should be in school, the young ragpicker sifts through heaps of garbage for scraps of salable plastic and metals at the Okhla landfill, one of the three giant dumping grounds in the sprawling Indian capital, which produces about Munna makes a pittance, about 500 rupees, or $7, a day for his back-breaking work. Even that sad apology for a livelihood is about to disappear as India is set to implement a ban starting July 1 on single-use plastics, which are used to make items like earbuds, lollipop sticks, polystyrene packets, plates, cups, spoons, packaging wraps, cigarette packs and stirrers, among the other items of daily use that populate our life. Manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of these items made of single-use plastics which have “low utility and high littering potential” will not be allowed anymore, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Penalties include up to five years in jail, 100,000 rupees ($1,200) or both. Vijay Pandey—Picture Alliance/Getty Images Like many other migrants who clean after the city’s leftovers, Munna is contemplating leaving Delhi and returning to his village. With the ban looming and no alternative livelihood in sight, he is bracing for an uncertain economic future—along with the rest of India’s 5 million ragpickers, equivalent to Ireland’s total...