The BMC plans to auction the plastic seized during its raids and checks after implementation of the ban. It said it will soon come out with a circular directing ward officials to carry out auction of the plastic collected and stored in their respective wards, but only for registered Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) recyclers.

Through several collection bins placed in the city for citizens to give away the plastic they had in their homes, the BMC collected about 150 metric tons of it, stored across 37 segregation centres and to be handed over to plastic recyclers for correct disposal. However, ragpickers, while segregating dry and wet waste at the centres, sold a majority of it to several plastic manufacturers, who were collecting it under the extended producers' responsibility for recycling.