With just a month left for the retailers to create a mechanism that ensures recycling of plastic, in turn ensuring that they can continue using plastic for packaging purposes, the Federation of Retailers and Traders Welfare Association have written to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, mentioning their buy-back plan. As a part of this, even raddiwalas will be an option for citizens to deposit their plastic along with the retail and general stores.

Further, the association said that all the manufactured plastic will have the names and registered MPCB numbers of manufacturers, and it will be their responsibility to ensure that plastic is recycled.