Mumbai seems to have lost the momentum of the state-wide plastic ban that was issued a year back by the Maharashtra government. Single-use plastic is back in action, civic bodies have still started to fine erroneous customers and BMC's blue squads which are supposed to raid shops have disappeared from the streets.

According to experts, the failure of the ban is because of poor coordination among civic officials and a lack of effective mechanisms. As per BMC, it has so far seized around 60,000kg plastic worth u00e2u0082u00b93.39 crore. Of this, 28,000kg was seized in the first four months, while 32,000kg was seized in the following eight months.