The implementation of the scheme would start within a month’s time. Environment minister Ramdas Kadam told the state Legislative Assembly on Thursday that he had recently held a meeting with milk producers and they had agreed to the government notification of charging consumers 50 paise as deposit money when buying milk pouches. Else, they can keep the money and buy another pouch,” said the minister.Mr Kadam also said that the amount of milk being purchased did not matter and that the charges would be a flat 50 paise per water bottling machine Suppliers pouch, irrespective of the quantity. Ramdas Kadam Mumbai: More than a year since the plastic ban came into force in the state, and the buyback scheme for plastic milk pouches will start within a month’s time. As many as 24 companies are into processing of 550 tonnes of plastic per day,” he said. 

He claimed that nearly 80 per cent of the plastic came into Mahara-shtra from the neighbouring state of Gujarat.Under this scheme, the buyer, while purchasing the milk pouch, will have to deposit 50 paise which he or she will get back after returning the bag to the seller."1.He said he had personally visited the Maharashtra—Gujarat border to take action against trucks ferrying plastic into the state. The implementation of the scheme would start within a month’s time.The state government imposed a ban on the manufacture, use, sale, distribution and storage of plastic materials such as one-time-use bags, spoons, plates, PET and PETE bottles, and thermocol items on March 23 last year

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