{"id":245136,"date":"2024-07-27T00:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=245136"},"modified":"2024-07-27T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:16:38","slug":"nagaland-govt-to-ban-sups-from-1-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/27\/nagaland-govt-to-ban-sups-from-1-aug\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaland govt to ban SUPs from 1 Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KOHIMA, 26 Jul:<\/strong> The Nagaland government has imposed a complete ban on single-use plastic (SUP) products in the state with effect from 1 August, an official release said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move comes following a meeting over the issue with officials concerned and with a view to eradicating the &#8220;serious environmental and ecological challenges posed by rampant use of single-use plastic&#8221; in the state, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Single-use plastic products typically include food and beverage containers, bottles, straws and disposable plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All single-use plastic carry bags, irrespective of microns and all single-use plastic bottles for water and soft drinks below one litre would be completely banned in the state from 1 August,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All individual institutions and commercial establishments should abide with the ban and any breach would be liable for punitive action, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The District Task Force (DTF) that has been constituted should strictly monitor and function as vigilance squads in their respective districts, the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DTF has also been asked to conduct quarterly meetings over compliance of the ban. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOHIMA, 26 Jul: The Nagaland government has imposed a complete ban on single-use plastic (SUP) products in the state with effect from 1 August, an official release said on Friday. The move comes following a meeting over the issue with officials concerned and with a view to eradicating the &#8220;serious environmental and ecological challenges posed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}