The state government will be holding a meeting with plastic manufacturers, brand-owners and retailers this week to look into the matter. The state government had directed the manufacturers for the buy-back scheme, which also involves new buy-back prices being printed on the products. "We have been conducting inter-departmental meetings where various state agencies are working on plans to collect and recycle plastic. (Photo: AFP) Mumbai: While the state government maintains that it has laid down strict measures to implement the plastic ban, the buy-back mechanism for collection of multi-layered plastic packaging items has not yielded much success. We had directed the manufacturers to chalk out a buy-back mechanism for multi-layered plastic packets, but have only got response from three manufacturers till now,” said an official from the state environment department. Dairies too have been asked to put in place a buy-back mechanism for milk and related products’ pouches.State had given a deadline to manufacturers to come up with a buy-back mechanism. According to the state environment department, many manufacturers and brand-owners haven’t still submitted their plans to implement the buy-back mechanism..While multi-layered packaging is used for snack items like chips and biscuits, tetra-packaging is used for beverages and liquid food items. "

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