AHMEDABAD: On World Environment Day, Ahmedabad city will salary combat towards water pouches, plastic tea cups, betelnut-tobacco or masala-mawa wrappers and single-use plastic carrybags.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has already issued directions to all zonal workplaces, to seize banned plastic items and break them. Raids are anticipated at tea stalls, chemist retail outlets and neighbourhood and fruit and vegetable merchandising clusters.
AMC has already seized 3,295kg of banned plastic merchandise, accumulated Rs 42.82 lakh in fines and issued 13,493 notices to folks promoting or dealing in banned single-use plastics thinner than 40 microns.
Malls and neighbourhood supermarkets have additionally been suggested to deter plastic use. “From Tuesday onwards, we can practically be banning all single-use plastics, which were menacing our civic infrastructure and atmosphere,” mentioned municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar. He later added that particular plastic recycling ‘ATMs’ will likely be set up at 12 locations in the city, 4 in the first segment, which will pay people depositing plastic bottles with the AMC.
Special blue cars are being launched that may handiest accumulate plastic waste. “During our annual maintenance of underground civic infrastructure drives, our teams pull out tonnes of plastic masala-tobacco wrappers, tea cups and single-use plastic bags. They clog our stormwater drains and sewerage programs and are a risk,” says Kumar.
Phani Trivedi, a waste control skilled, issues out, “Waste segregation at supply is the key to the struggle on plastics. Firstly, instead of propagating the idea of wet or dry waste, which is complicated, AMC must propogate the idea of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. The reason is that many recyclers are finding mud, hair, stones and even dry leaves with non-biodegradable waste,” says Trivedi. She provides that that the twin packing containers –blue and inexperienced—supplied via AMC must be attached with a single lid, so the circle of relatives makes a decision on the right moment which department to offload the waste in.”
While the Ahmedabad mayor, Gautam Shah, flagged off the ‘Beat Plastic Pollution” mini marathon recently, several NGOs organised plastic clearance drives in spaces like Chandkheda, CG Road and a number of other other spaces of the town.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has already issued directions to all zonal workplaces, to seize banned plastic items and break them. Raids are anticipated at tea stalls, chemist retail outlets and neighbourhood and fruit and vegetable merchandising clusters.
AMC has already seized 3,295kg of banned plastic merchandise, accumulated Rs 42.82 lakh in fines and issued 13,493 notices to folks promoting or dealing in banned single-use plastics thinner than 40 microns.
Malls and neighbourhood supermarkets have additionally been suggested to deter plastic use. “From Tuesday onwards, we can practically be banning all single-use plastics, which were menacing our civic infrastructure and atmosphere,” mentioned municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar. He later added that particular plastic recycling ‘ATMs’ will likely be set up at 12 locations in the city, 4 in the first segment, which will pay people depositing plastic bottles with the AMC.
Special blue cars are being launched that may handiest accumulate plastic waste. “During our annual maintenance of underground civic infrastructure drives, our teams pull out tonnes of plastic masala-tobacco wrappers, tea cups and single-use plastic bags. They clog our stormwater drains and sewerage programs and are a risk,” says Kumar.
Phani Trivedi, a waste control skilled, issues out, “Waste segregation at supply is the key to the struggle on plastics. Firstly, instead of propagating the idea of wet or dry waste, which is complicated, AMC must propogate the idea of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. The reason is that many recyclers are finding mud, hair, stones and even dry leaves with non-biodegradable waste,” says Trivedi. She provides that that the twin packing containers –blue and inexperienced—supplied via AMC must be attached with a single lid, so the circle of relatives makes a decision on the right moment which department to offload the waste in.”
While the Ahmedabad mayor, Gautam Shah, flagged off the ‘Beat Plastic Pollution” mini marathon recently, several NGOs organised plastic clearance drives in spaces like Chandkheda, CG Road and a number of other other spaces of the town.
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