Action Plan for Elimination of identified Single-Use Plastics and effective implementation of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016

(concerned Central Ministries / Departments)

# Activity/Sub-Activity Budget allocation Nature of activity Timeline
1 Policy and Regulatory Framework 0 Short Term June 2022
1.1 Preparation of a comprehensive action plan for elimination of single use plastics 0 Short Term
1.2 Status of Plastic Ban Notification including on single–use plastic across all ULBs as per PWM Rules,2021 0 Short Term June 2022
1.3 Policy for inclusion of components relating to elimination of SUP and remediation/management of legacy waste in project proposals under SBM 2.0 0 Short Term
1.4 Policy for development of decentralised recycling infrastructure/end of Life disposal infrastructure, with special focus on low-value plastics 0 Short Term
1.5 Adoption of sustainable public procurement policy for products and plastic packaging material made of recycled plastics, and alternatives to identified single use plastics, AS per applicable standards 0 Short Term
2 Institutional Mechanism 0 Short Term
2.1 Constitution of City Level Task Force for Million plus cities: under Commissioner of Municipal Corporation or Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate or any other officer of suitable rank as deemed appropriate by the State Government 0 Short Term
2.2 Setting up of a plastic waste management cell at state/UT(department dealing with ULB) and ULB level 0 Short Term
3 Management of littered single use plastic items in ULB 0 Short Term
3.1 Identification of littering hot spots with respect SUP items and development of strategy for their collection and further management 0 Short Term
3.2 Identification of ingress points of littered single use plastic items in surface water bodies and drains and strategy for prevention at ULB level 0 Short Term
3.3 Phased plan for cleaning surface water bodies, and drains of floating singles use plastic items and their further management at ULB level 0 Short Term
3.4 Document total quantity of plastic waste present in legacy waste sites and implementation of plan to manage legacy plastic waste - location-wise (ULB level) 0 Short Term
3.5 Activities to be specifically included under Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 for SUP elimination and management of legacy waste sites, AS per guidelines 0 Short Term
4 Plastic waste management including single use plastics 0 Short Term
4.1 Status of State Strategy on Plastic waste management by All State/UTs UD Department 0 Long Term December 2023
4.2 Assessment of plastic waste generation in ULB wise 0 Short Term
4.3 Assistance for Setting up of Material Recovery Facilities 0 Long Term March 2025
4.4 Assessment of infrastructure required for plastic waste management – collection , segregation, recycling / EOLD - ULB wise 0 Short Term
4.5 ULB-wise details of infrastructure for collection, segregation and channelization of plastic waste to recyclers/EOLD 0 Short Term
4.6 Assistance for Legacy Waste Remediation 0 Long Term March 2026
4.7 Gap analysis and strategy for development of infrastructure for PWM – ULB -wise 0 Short Term
4.8 Leveraging of funds undue Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0, AS per guidelines 0 Short Term
4.9 Strategy for collection and segregation of plastic waste at the ULB level 0 Short Term
5 Plastic recycling infrastructure and end of life disposal facilities 0 Short Term
5.1 Development of Database of recyclers of plastic category wise and also EOLD entities ULB-wise 0 Short Term
5.2 Development of plan/incentive scheme for promotion of setting up of recycling facilities category-wise 0 Short Term
5.3 Development of industrial composting facilities for compostable plastics: Number and quantity 0 Short Term
5.4 Development of infrastructure/incentive scheme for EOLD, - Waste to oil, waste to energy, road construction, coprocessing cement kilns 0 Short Term
6 Data collection and monitoring mechanism 0 Short Term
6.1 Development of online Database and monitoring system covering items covered under Comprehensive action Plan 0 Short Term
6.2 Online public grievance/complaints portal 0 Short Term
6.3 Mechanism to undertake regular qquarterly survey for (i) prohibited single-use plastic items in plastic waste and (ii) compositional characterization of plastic waste in the following categories (a) Rigid plastic packaging including multilayered packaging, (b) Flexible plastic packaging single layered and multilayered of the plastics only and (c) Multi layered multimaterial(at least one layer of plastic and at least one layer of other material) plastic packaging 0 Short Term
7 Awareness generation and capacity building 0 Short Term
7.1 Preparation of road map for awareness generation activities at ULB level for citizens, institutional waste generators, RWAs/Market associations 0 Short Term
7.2 Assistance for Awareness generation activities related to SUP ban and plastic waste management 0 Continuous
7.3 Strategy for targeted campaign at littering hotspots such AS tourist spots, places of religious and cultural importance, weekly markets, urban sprawls against littering, and promoting alternate packaging material 0 Short Term
7.4 Assistance for Capacity Building: Specially curated training module on Plastic Waste Management covering all ULBs / Cantonment Boards 0 Continuous
7.5 Capacity building for repurposing and promoting reuse of plastic packaging 0 Short Term
7.6 Capacity building of ULBs for PWM 0 Short Term
8 Action taken for reducing/elimination of single use plastic items in State/UT Government offices, attached/subordinate offices, PSUs/organization 0 Short Term
8.1 Implementation of actions given in Standard Guidelines for single use plastic issued earlier by the Ministry (enclosed) 0 Short Term