<i>The plan was for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to outlaw six items on Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of the birth of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, as part of a broader campaign to rid India of single-use plastics by 2022.</i><p>But it was seen as "too disruptive for industry", so instead:<p><i>For now, government will ask states to enforce existing rules against storing, manufacturing and using some single-use plastic products such as polythene bags and styrofoam ... "There is no new ban order being issued ... Now, it's a question of telling people about the ill-effects of plastic, of collecting and sending for for recycling so people don't litter."</i><p>Gandhi wept.
Pakistan is also experimenting with something similar. Ambitious effort, but without the infrastructural help to shift to alternatives that's just not going to happen