{"id":5159,"date":"2019-08-22T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:02:12","slug":"indian-railways-to-enforce-ban-on-single-use-plastic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-railways-to-enforce-ban-on-single-use-plastic-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to enforce ban on single use plastic material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taking a cue from the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi\u2019s clarion call in his Independence Day speech to eliminate single use plastic in the country from 2nd October, 2019, Indian Railways has once again risen to the occasion to shield the environment from the menace of plastic.Ministry of Railways has directed all Railway unitsto enforce ban on single use plastic material, with less than 50 micron thicknessfrom 2nd October, 2019. Emphasis is on making necessary arrangementsto minimize generation of plastic waste and its eco- friendly disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, Ministry of Railways has issued a circular\nstating the following instructions areto be enforced: w.e.f. 02.10.2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ban on single use plastic material<\/li><li>All railway vendors to avoid use of plastic carry bags<\/li><li>Staff should reduce, reuse and refuse plastic products and to use inexpensive reusable bags to reduce plastic footprint.<\/li><li>IRCTC to implement return of plastic drinking waterbottles as part of Extended Producer Responsibility.<\/li><li>Plastic Bottle crushing machines to be provided expeditiously.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Strict enforcement of these instructions is to be from\n02.10.2019, to give enough time to all concerned to prepare for \u201cPlastic Free\nRailway\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Railways has also instructed its Railway units\nthat a pledge can be administered on 2nd October, 2019 to cut use of plastics.\nAlso, Information, Education &amp; Communication (IEC) measures are to be\nadapted to create awareness among railway users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a cue from the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi\u2019s clarion call in his Independence Day speech to eliminate single use plastic in the country from 2nd October, 2019, Indian Railways has once again risen to the occasion to shield the environment from the menace of plastic.Ministry of Railways has directed all Railway unitsto enforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[418],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-indian-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}