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Big retailers wake up to ill-effects of plastic [1]

It is understandable that consumers are switching over to supermarket chains for household shopping. These outlets offer competitively priced groceries and other essentials under one roof. An unfortunate offshoot of this phenomenon, though, is the alarmingly high use of plastic in both product wrappings and carrybags .

Publication Date: 
16/02/2008
Economic Times [2]
Tags:
Plastics [3], Non-Biodegradable Waste [4], CSE Study [5], CSE [6], India [7]
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