Legislator Muhammad Yusuf Tarigami, who heads the Assembly’s Committee on Environment, has appealed directly to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to issue an executive order banning plastic comprehensively. Environmental activists have called for a mass public campaign on the scale of the administration’s anti-drug drive, reflecting a consensus that the half-measures of the past several years have simply not worked, and that it is time for something more decisive. J&K has had a plastic ban on the books since 2019, and single-use plastics were formally prohibited from 2022 onward.