The National Green Tribunal of New Delhi has banned the use of disposable plastic in Delhi and NCR, which should come as a silver lining as reports of Delhi’s sickening levels of pollution continue to dominate news headlines. The law will come in to effect by January 1, 2017. However, we shouldn’t get too excited as the law is a bit misleading. As per reports, the government is really only clamping down on disposable tea cups and plastic bags specifically. What is even more disappointing is that the direction that mandates the city government to take steps to reduce dumped waste is going to be tiptoed around, in a manner of speaking. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Swatanter Kumar has refused to followed the direction as it would entail shutting down the Okhla waste-to-energy plant as well as two other plants at Gazipur and Bhalswa.

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