The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which initially seemed unprepared to implement the plastic ban on Saturday, started its crackdown at Phoenix Mall post 6 pm after news of other civic bodies' fine collections trickled in. While some of the 249 inspectors, authorised to impose fines, had not received their blue jackets yet, the ones who had, began fining large retail outlets at the mall.

Eleven retail outlets there bore the brunt of the blue squad on Day 1, among which were Starbucks, Food Hall, Indigo Delicatessen, Gossip (a shoe store) and McDonald's. A BMC spokesperson said, "The squad fined them all Rs 5,000 each. McDonald's initially resisted the fine, but later paid up. We collected Rs 55,000 in fines."