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“Delhi degradable plastic bag Bill does not adhere to court order”

NEW DELHI: Environmentalists in the Capital have said that the Delhi Degradable Plastic Bag (Manufacture, Sale and Usage) and Garbage Control (Amendment) Bill, 2008, passed by the Delhi Assembly on Thursday does not completely adhere to the Delhi High Court order issued last month which instructed an appropriate notification forbidding use of plastic bags in the main markets, local shopping centres apart from hotels, hospitals and mall where use of such bags is already forbidden. Asking the State Government to adopt environmentally sound and economically viable solutions which could replace plastic bags, they said that “while we appreciate the Delhi Government’s latest move to implement the Delhi High Court order, it should refrain from putting out advertisements which state that degradable plastic bags are allowed in major and local shopping centres”. “Also, the Bill passed on Thursday does not take into account the fact that the Delhi High Court has prohibited use of plastic bags in the main markets, local shopping centres apart from hotels, hospitals and malls where use of such bags is already forbidden,” said environmentalist V.K. Jain who heads non-government organisation Tapas. He has also written to the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit stating that the State Environment Department “should make correction and issue another advertisement with correct information that all kind of plastic bags are forbidden by court order in places as mentioned in the court order so that the there is no violation of the order and no further litigation takes place,” said Mr. Jain. “Besides this, even the committee constituted by the Delhi High Court rejected degradable plastic bags as there are no BIS standards for degradability of plastic bags. We don’t want the Delhi Government to misinterpret the court order ,” said Mr. Jain.

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