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Delhi imposes complete ban of plastic bags

Here's how Delhi's old ban worked. Merchants no longer had plastic bags in their shop.
Merchants couldn't supply you with a bag.

But sitting right outside the shop was a young kid with a pile of bags. The merchant would hand your purchases out to the bag boy who would stick 'em in and hand 'em over.

A ban is not likely to work. It most likely will take a cultural shift.

Pay 'em 25 cents a pound to bring used plastic back.

We welcome the move of complete ban of plastic in the capital of India. Though it's "too little, too late!" but a first serious step towards cleaning the environment. But banning plastic usage will encourage people to use paper bags. Thus, Indian government should also learn from it's neighbour country, China and promote reusable bags http://www.bbbegonia.com as an alternative.