Mumbai: Plastic ban goes down the drain, BMC blames it on slum dwellers

May 28, 2019

Despite the ban on the use of plastic bags since June last year, tonnes of dumped plastic refuse has been clogging the nullahs across the city disrupting the flow of water.

The state government implemented its plastic ban policy from June 23 last year. The reason was that these plastic bags form the bulk of floating material in nullahs, leading to clogging and subsequent flooding.

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