BMC resumes crack down, seizes 61.5 kg single-use plastic

According to the MPCB’s directives, production, merchantability and proscription of single-use integrative including thermocol is banned successful the state.

As portion of the authorities directive, the MPCB has empowered the section civic bodies successful bid to instrumentality enactment against violators.

The civic body’s determination connected penalising integrative users started successful 2019, nevertheless it slowed down pursuing the Covid-19 pandemic. The thrust picked up gait successful August 2023, however, it again slowed down aboriginal that year.

“This time, the thrust volition absorption connected eradicating integrative usage from the registered markets. At present, determination are 91 registered civic markets successful Mumbai, which we are trying to marque wholly integrative escaped done this move,” said a civic official.

The BMC’s information moreover stated that till day successful 2025, a full of 167 kg of integrative has been seized and a punishment upto Rs 6.1 lakh has been recovered by registering cases against 5,783 establishments successful Mumbai.

Last year, the BMC recovered Rs 41.7 lakh successful penalties by penalising 44,448 establishments, and seizing 2,148 kg of plastic.

According to the BMC’s rules the punishment magnitude of a archetypal offender is Rs 5,000, the punishment magnitude for a 2nd clip offender is Rs 10,000.

Any violator recovered blameworthy much than 2 times has to wage a punishment of Rs 25,000, and whitethorn besides look up to 3 months of imprisonment.