India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ban single-use plastics in his Independence Day speech in Delhi
Modi called on Indians to make an effort to rid their country of plastic waste and raised the possibility of"strong first steps towards bidding adieu to single-use plastic on October 2." About 70% of the plastic the country consumes is simply discarded and there is no processing of waste in most Indian cities, according to the Ministry of Environment's Central Pollution Control Board.India's waste problem continues to grow.
Read MoreIndia's trash mountains are a fetid symbol of the country's plastic problem"If you see single-use plastic at home or on the road, help the municipal authorities in your towns and villages to clean it up," he said."Let's make India free of single-use plastic, shall we?Modi also called on business people to support the move."I urge the start-up founders, technicians and industrialists to find ways to recycle plastic," he said.
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