But it was seen as "too disruptive for industry", so instead:

For now, government will ask states to enforce existing rules against storing, manufacturing and using some single-use plastic products such as polythene bags and styrofoam ... "There is no new ban order being issued ... Now, it's a question of telling people about the ill-effects of plastic, of collecting and sending for for recycling so people don't litter."

Gandhi wept.