{"id":9301,"date":"2022-10-21T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:58:29","slug":"single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Use Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a bid to reduce plastic pollution, India from July 1, 2022\u00a0banned\u00a019\u00a0SUP\u00a0items.<\/li>\n<li>Plastic carry bags of thickness\u00a0<strong>less than 75 microns<\/strong>\u00a0are also prohibited under the\u00a0<strong>Plastic Waste Management Rules.<\/strong>\u00a0Their thickness will have to be\u00a0<strong>increased to 120<\/strong>\u00a0microns from December 31, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plastic wrapping material less than 50 microns<\/strong>\u00a0in thickness and plastic sachets used for selling and storing tobacco, pan masala and gutkha are also not allowed.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Single-use plastics:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Single-use plastics, often also referred to as\u00a0disposable plastics, are commonly used for plastic packaging and include items intended to be used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Application:<\/strong>These include, among other items, grocery bags, food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups and cutlery<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong>Single-use plastic bags are widely used because they are strong, cheap and hygienic ways to transport goods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environmental impact:<\/strong>They can take up to thousands of years to decompose, contaminating soil and water, and posing significant ingestion, choking and entanglement hazards to wildlife on land and in the ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1869635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-use plastics are intended to be used only once before they are thrown away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}