Plastic Ban | MSME: Choked by the plastic ban, MSMEs units gasp to find an answer

“My factory has not got a single order for plastic spoons for two and a half months now,” says Dilip Kumar Patel, the owner of Silicon Spoon in Ahmedabad. That is quite a knock for his six-year-old disposable-cutlery-making firm that had a turnover of Rs 75 lakh last year.

His grumble stems from the government ban on making, storing, selling, importing and using single-use plastic (SUP) products from July 1. From December, plastic bags of less