Three months after the plastic ban was introduced with much fanfare, along with the threat of those men and women in blue on the lookout for anything plastic in your hands, one can still find plastic bags everywhere one turns. mid-day reporters went out into the city on September 18-19 to see just how effective (or ineffective) the ban really is.

While the blue squad, as Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) likes to call them, is missing in action, the ubiquitous plastic, that momentarily disappeared, has made an insidious comeback, with street vendors in many parts of the city handing them out brazenly, and the public more than willing to accept them.