{"id":152013,"date":"2019-07-19T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=152013"},"modified":"2019-07-19T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:03:50","slug":"plastic-carry-bags-association-demand-relax-ban-use-high-thickness-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/152013","title":{"rendered":"Plastic and Carry Bags Association demand to Relax ban on use of high thickness bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Local Bodies Minister <strong>Calls on Brahm Mohindra <\/strong>asks officers to study the proposal&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Chandigarh, July 19 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; &nbsp;Associations of Punjab plastic carry bags&nbsp;manufacturers,&nbsp;both <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-141086 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Braham-Mohindra.jpg\" alt=\"Braham Mohindra\" width=\"464\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Braham-Mohindra.jpg 550w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Braham-Mohindra-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/>making carry bags from plain plastic and that making it from non woven material&nbsp;today called on Mr. Brahm Mohindra, Local Bodies Minister, Punjab and urged the Minister to relax&nbsp;the orders issued by the government in 2016, through which manufacturing, stocking, distribution, recycling, sale and use of plastic carry bags including non-woven plastic carry bags was banned in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The association called on the Minister at Punjab Municipal Bhawan, Sector 35, Chandigarh. Mr. A Venu Prasad, Principal Secretary, Local Government and Mr. K. S. Pannu, Director Environment &amp; Climate Change were also present during the meeting. Non woven carry bags Association made a plea that Non-Woven bags are not plastic bags hence they might not be equated with plastic carry bags. The association in support of their claim made representation with the facts that Non- Woven Fabric is a technical textile ,though made from polypropylene,&nbsp; and it is recyclable, water and&nbsp; air permeable, non toxic and is safe in contact with foodstuff, pharmaceutical and drinking water. Association also made a plea that after considering the ill effects of the plastic bags on the climate, they have shifted their plastic bags units to manufacturing of Non-Woven bags and invested huge money in setting these units and providing employment to large workforce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The plastic carry bags manufacturers association stressed that high thickness plastic carry bags are recyclable and are reused by downstream industries and hence do not adversely affect the environment.&nbsp; They pleaded that the government may allow manufacturing and sale of more than 100 mm thickness plastic carry bags&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Brahm Mohindra assured the association that the government will sympathetically consider their demand. He instructed the officers present in the meeting to study the practicability and legality of their demands.&nbsp;He further said that the manufacturers have invested huge amount in Punjab and were giving employment to thousands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Local Bodies Minister Calls on Brahm Mohindra asks officers to study the proposal&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Chandigarh, July 19 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; &nbsp;Associations of Punjab plastic carry bags&nbsp;manufacturers,&nbsp;both making carry bags from plain plastic and that making it from non woven material&nbsp;today called on Mr. Brahm Mohindra, Local Bodies Minister, Punjab and urged the Minister to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plastic and Carry Bags Association demand to Relax ban on use of high thickness bags | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/152013\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plastic and Carry Bags Association demand to Relax ban on use of high thickness bags | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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