HIGH COURT REFUSES TO BAN POLYBAGS.

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High Court refuses stay on polybag ban

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant an interim stay on a Delhi Government notification imposing a complete ban on use of plastic bags in the Capital.

The All-India Plastic Industries’ Association had in a petition sought a stay on the notification issued on January 7 this year.

The Government had issued the notification following a direction by the Court last year on a public interest litigation seeking a ban on use of plastic bags in the Capital.

Challenging the notification, the petitioner submitted that the ban was arbitrary and contrary to the Centre’s rules in this regard. The Government had failed to take into consideration the practicality and feasibility before imposing the ban, the petitioner said.

The High Court last year had extended the scope of the ban on use of plastic bags to the city’s main markets and local shopping centres as well. Earlier their use was banned only in hotels, hospitals and shopping malls. To discourage indiscriminate use of plastic bags by shopkeepers and encourage rag-pickers to pick them up for recycling, the Court had made plastic bags more expensive.

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