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TASK FORCE
The
Ministry of environment and Forests (MOEF) is seized of the various social, environmental
and technical issues related to the growth and diversification of the plastics
industry, the generation of post consumer wastes and the subsequent problems of
collection and disposal. Issues relating to plastics waste management had been
debated in the National Waste Management Council of the MOEF since 1993 and a
background paper was circulated among local authorities and the plastics industries.
For disciplining and regulating the growth of plastics waste industry,
and to take a comprehensive view of the matter for the purpose of identifying
the measures to be undertaken for management of plastics waste, the Government
constituted a National Plastics Waste management Task Force under the Chairmanship
of the Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board in September, 1996. The tenure
of this Task Force was extended till August, 1997 to enable the Task Force to
complete its work.
The members of the Task Force included experts from
the plastics industry, IPCL, NOCIL, Trade Associations, representatives of FICCI,
CII, Shri Ram Institute for Industrial Research, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals,
Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council, CPHEEO ministry of Urban Affairs
& Employment and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The Task Force had the following
objectives:
- To
formulate a strategy and prepare an action programme for management of plastic
waste;
- To
propose incentives/penalties/levies for checking the growth of plastics packaging
waste; and
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To prepare guidelines for packaging using plastics materials
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