The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has collected 1.61 lakh kg of banned plastic items since the ban came into effect last month. While the municipal corporation has not yet started going all out against retailers or citizens for use of plastic, activists are coming up with initiatives to encourage citizens to give up plastic. Mumbai Sustainability Centre is a non-profit organisation that has started an initiative to collect plastic by engaging schools and colleges.

A website called safaibank.org is helping schools urge their students to stock the multi-laminated packaging waste which is used for packaging of chips and biscuits. Rishi Aggarwal, an environmentalist who is involved with this website, said, "We have collected 560 plastic items so far, which were thrown in the open."