In response to the changing public perception of plastics, there have been moves within the government to remedy India's plastic pollution. In September 1996, the ministry of environment and forests set up a National Plastics Waste Management Task Force with the specific mandate to tackle plastic waste disposal.

But the Task Force proved to be a marriage of convenience between the plastic industry and ministry officials. According to Ravi Aggarwal of Sristhi environmental groups and the public were excluded from the body, leaving governmental policy entirely in the hands of industrialists. The Task Force Report submitted in August 1997, designed to