Mumbai banned plastic bags and ruled that shops levy a 3 rupee surcharge if you wanted a plastic bag. For comparison a cup of tea on the street is 7 rupees. Mu

Mumbai banned plastic bags and ruled that shops levy a 3 rupee surcharge if you wanted a plastic bag. For comparison a cup of tea on the street is 7 rupees. Mumbai during the monsoon season faces 3 months of torrential downpour, and the plastic bags would clog up public drainage systems and was one of the main causes of small scale urban flooding. Post-banning the plastic bags, things have changed for the better - significantly so. Edit: added reference below. There are many articles around this and one of them is: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=KyRzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA571&lpg=PA571&dq=plastic+bags+monsoon+mumbai&source=bl&ots=e8MQDtbulh&sig=UuP8LAlp-9ITWXagZweZglz8LDU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBWoVChMImeO9_ZnDxwIVClmSCh1h2wD_#v=onepage&q=plastic%20bags%20monsoon%20mumbai&f=false https://books.google.co.in/books?id=KyRzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA571&lp...