Pollution is defined as an undesirable change in the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of air, water, land and soil. Pollutants are agents that causes undesirable changes in the environment. The government of India has passed the environment protection act, 1986 to protect and improve the quality of our environment i. e., air, water and soil.

Efforts made for the remedy of plastic waste are as follows :

1. Plastic waste is used to lay down the roads by mixing plastic waste with charcoal.
2. Under Swachchh Bharat Mission government has banned the single use plastic and imposes a hefty fine on the violators.
3. Technologies like incineration and gasification using the plastic waste to generate the electricity, the much needed energy source of today’s world.