India ’s prime minister , Narendra Modi , pledged to ban single - use plastics during his Independence Day Speech in Delhi on 15 August . Around 70 % of the country ’s plastic is discarded and most India cities fail to process it , according to the ministry of environment ’s central pollution control board . India ’s Ganges River is second only to the Yangtze in China in the volume of plastic it releases to the world ’s oceans . In 2018 , Modi called for a crackdown on plastic pollution and said India would eradicate single - use plastic by 2022 .
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, pledged to ban single-use plastics during his Independence Day Speech in Delhi on 15 August. Around 70% of the country’s plastic is discarded and most India cities fail to process waste, according to the ministry of environment’s central pollution control board. India’s Ganges river is second only to the Yangtze in China in the volume of plastic it contributes to the world’s oceans. In 2018, Modi called for a crackdown on plastic pollution and said India would eradicate single-use plastic by 2022.