Ok.C. Karupannan
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AIADMK chief Ok.C. Karupannan on Thursday advised the Assembly that regardless of a Statewide ban on single-use plastics in 2019, plastic carry baggage are still in widespread use.
Plastics covers are seen all over the place from flower stalls to inns and meat outlets, he stated and questioned the federal government on measures being taken to regulate plastic use.
The ban that got here into pressure throughout former Chief Minister Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami just isn’t being enforced successfully now, Mr. Karupannan added.
Replying to the Opposition chief, Minister for Environment and Climate Change Siva V. Meyyanathan stated though there was a strict enforcement of the ban for six months after it was imposed on January 1, 2019, management measures waned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin got here to energy in 2021, he not solely expanded the ban but additionally introduced options to single-use plastics such because the manjappai, stated the Minister. We will deliver in extra measures to additional management plastics use, he stated.
