India hopes to end single-use plastics within 3 years

NEW DELHI (AP) — India announced an ambitious campaign on Wednesday aimed at eliminating single-use plastics within three years.
Environment ministry official Chintan Mishra said efforts to “sensitize” the public against single-use plastics started Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of independence leader Mohandas Gandhi’s birth.
Mishra explained the campaign at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in New Delhi.
Most Indian states already have some reg