Govt. cracks whip on plastics

Puducherry | Saturday | 11th August, 2018

Summary:

| Photo Credit: S_S_KUMARmore-inThe government has started cracking the whip on industries manufacturing plastic bags with a thickness of less than 50 microns. The sealed factory did not have proper licence and most items produced were less than 50 microns thickness. The seized items were all below 50 microns thickness. Mr.

Kandasamy said the government had banned production and sale of plastic bags with less than 50 micron thickness. The pollution control board officials sealed the Standard Polymers after they found a majority of plastic bags produced in the factory were of less than 50 microns thickness..