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Re:Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic... by sumedh on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @06:45AM (#17399409)
Doesnt Mumbai do that every couple of years and the the whole thing fizzles out and then some new bureaucrat tries it again.

This is from 2009

http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/30/bmc-plans-to-b...

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Re:Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic... by chauhankiran on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @06:54AM (#17399454)
Yeah! That's true. Recently Ahmedabad city also bans Plastic like Mumbai. But, in last few years, I have heard this same news three times.
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Re:Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic... by denzil_correa on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:26AM (#17399605)
In Mumbai (and India), law enforcement is a huge challenge regardless of the laws.
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Re:Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic... by kamaal on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @09:49AM (#17400548)
What makes this issue worse is the existence of bullshit impractical laws, such as this.
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Re:Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic... by anticodon on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:57AM (#17399776)
Exactly. I read every year in the local Goa newspaper that government bans plastic in Goa. Yet every time I arrive nothing is changed.
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