IIT director pitches in for plastic bags

摘要

THE plastic industry has found a heavyweight defender against the state ban in IIT-Powai director,chemical engineer and technocrat Ashok Misra."Polyethylene per se is not harmful to the environment,the way it has been made out to be.In fact,the discovery of plastic has been one of the greatest gifts that chemistry has offered to mankind in the 20th century," Misra said.