Plastic bags banned in Forest Dept nurseries
- The Union Ministry of Forest and Environment has recently directed the Forest Department nurseries to stop using polythene bags and explore alternatives for planting saplings. The direction aims at making India a plastic-free country by the year 2022.
- Instructions related to this have been sent to the chief conservator of forest and Forest & Wildlife Department of the State governments. Currently, saplings are raised in various-size plastic bags in nurseries coming under the State government. But from now onwards, the nurseries must be transformed into no-plastic zones.
