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Need Of Creating More Awareness Among People

Whenever I visit Matunga market, I see lot of people, including vendors, using plastic carry bags. If this is the situation near the BMC office, you can imagine the scene in other parts of the city,” said Rudresh Satpute from Lalbaug. The BMC initially had taken several steps in that direction.After the plastic ban came into force from June 23, the BMC started taking action against banned plastic by forming special teams of inspectors, which are called as blue squads. But it now seems to be lacking in it.

However, with the action now becoming slack, the impact of the ban is fading away.Mumbai: While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is claiming big achievements over the plastic ban implementation, civic activists and citizens have alleged that civic body’s action has been slowed down after the initial burst.”Citizens have said that despite the ban, the plastic bags are available everywhere. But the fact is that the initial effect is no more.”Activists have also called for greater public awareness for the effective implementation of ban.

Civic activist Nikhil Desai from Matunga said, “The BMC is giving tall figures to emphasize on the success of plastic ban. Many people had stopped using plastic carry bags for the fear of violating the ban. However, these bags are now seen everywhere. There should be sustained efforts from the BMC to enlighten people about the ban. “There is a need of creating more awareness among people about the plastic PETG Film Sleevemaker-GM40 Suppliers ban.According to civic activists, people had taken the plastic ban into right spirit and had started supporting it. “Just next to the BMC headquarters, I find hawkers selling banned plastic garbage bags on the foot-over bridge

 

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We generally collect seven tons of flower

Plastic contribute to environmental waste in a big way. Ankit’s initiative is not just helping to stop the flower waste to go to landfill and waterways but also helping women with livelihoods in Kanpur, Tirupati and Andhra Pradesh. “Marriage is a process, not some sort of achievement that we need to spend a lot. Informing about the process, he says that once the plastic is crushed in the machine, it is further sent to the companies who use it to make new products out of it. Talking about the process, she explains that they have a dedicated team, which only works for weddings, and there are proper checks involved. From last one and a half year through his initiative HelpUsGreen,Ankit Agarwal with women workersAnkit has been collecting waste flowers from weddings across India and handcrafts them into charcoal-free incense sticks, organic vermicompost and biodegradable packaging material through flowercycling technology. “We do proper quality checks before collecting food and distributing the food. 29-year-old Ankit Agarwal from Kanpur has the solution for it.

We collect all the plates, water jugs, glasses and other plastic material after the wedding is over,” says 32-year-old Shahid. While the lavish wedding came under the scanner for its show of obnoxious opulence, there are no concrete statistics on how much of reusable waste weddings across the country generates. We have been collecting food for a long time.Colelcting food from weddings into containersGifting fragrancesApart from religious ceremonies and temples, weddings produce a lot of flower waste. If we distribute that on street then it’s more like begging, and we intend to give food as a motivation,” she informs. “They write inside the box that all the flowers used in this wedding will be repurposed. And the food is given as an incentive for beneficiaries to come to school or skill development centres. At the same time, thousands of Indians sleep hungry every night.

“This will get them out of the poverty cycle in the long-run. “I got married during the day so that we wouldn’t have to install lights and fans and waste electricity. “About one-fifth of the food served at weddings and social gatherings is discarded. It was then he decided to collect waste plastic utensils from most of the city’s five-star hotels hosting wedding ceremonies. All products are handmade by women workers and it is comfortable to work with people who are environment-friendly,” he says. We have temperature control vans and hygienic containers,” she reveals. The incenses are given as a gift to all the guests as a token of memory. “At times, PETG Film Sleevemaker-GH45 Factory we collect more than 1500 kg plastic and if it is lying on the fields, imagine how terrible the implications can be. While Amit may be among the few who are environmentally conscious, most Indian weddings still contribute significantly to food and other waste. “The plastic that we collect is not dirty, it is fresh and can be used again. So far, Ankit has catered more than 15 weddings and according to him, he connects only with clients who are eco-conscious. We only collected books because we both love reading,” he adds. These discarded petals go to waterways and harm marine life and the environment. Our invite was the size of a visiting card and guests were served only what they could eat,” says Amit who apparently got the idea of a zero-waste wedding from his college days at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

With her towering initiative, Srishti has collected food from thousands of weddings and assured that she contributes to society and couples to have a minimal waste wedding day. We gave them our ready incenses and they gave us almost 500 kg waste flowers,” reveals Ankit, who has also used waste flowers from Rajnikanth’s daughter Soundarya’s wedding in February 2019.Meals with LoveSrishti Jain, the co-founder of Feeding India has served over 20 million people in the last five years with the food collected from various hi-profile weddings across 75 cities in India.Recycling the flowers collected from weddingsUtensils for changeWedding waste is not restricted to food and flowers. We use pure essential oils to make it.When Amit Kalla, a poet and painter from Jodhpur, decided to get hitched, he made sure that his wedding ceremony contributed very minimally to environmental waste. And recycling somewhat feels like helping people to have nature-friendly wedding,” he adds.

“We generally collect seven tons of flowers from all the religious places, but we were contacted by a family from Kolkata in 2017 to collect their flowers and reuse them. Mumbai based Shahid Chaudhary, who owns a plastic recycling company JRS Recycling Solutions, was surprised to see tons of plastic near his locality after a neighbourhood wedding ceremony. The main beneficiaries of the food include children, women, elderly and specially-abled people. end-of Tags: waste wedding. We wanted to be very specific and wanted to ensure that every wedding season we target the maximum number of events,” says Srishti, whose NGO has also collected food from comedian Kapil Sharma’s wedding receptions in Mumbai, Ambala and Amritsar. And some are trying to put this waste to good use. Case in point: 4000 kilos of garbage that was left behind at a pristine hill station in Uttarakhand after a grand wedding ceremony of two sons of South Africa-based businessmen

 

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But a greater push and clarity is needed to ensure

The corporation launched a campaign called “Ente Nagaram, Sundara Nagaram”, which means “My City. Getting rid of large quantities of waste is often beyond the financial capacities of urban local bodies.Public consultation and participation of citizens from the very beginning coupled, with information campaigns across all sectors, is therefore vital for the successful enforcement of the rules. Achieving the objectives of the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan is therefore practicable only if the country works towards reducing the generation of waste by inculcating simple habits like reduce, reuse and recycle, in tandem with proper segregation and treatment practices. Only a coordinated effort of all stakeholders can help reduce the غير مجاز مي باشدt of waste management rather than thrusting the responsibility solely on the shoulders of the municipal authorities. The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation (TMC) is known for its innovation to improve its services… and one of the latest examples is its new approach to dispose of its municipal solid waste.

The Alappuzha municipality earned a few national awards and the UNEP recently recognised it as one of the five top clean cities in the world. Many cities lack the facilities for safe disposal of municipal solid waste. The Alappuzha municipality took efforts to decentralise the waste management rather than continuing with the usual collect-and-dump type model in open landfills.As a result of the mass awareness campaign, Thiruvananthapuram city’s residents were sensitised to treat the bio-degradable waste or kitchen waste at the source itself.Organic and biodegradable waste, which constitutes 50-60 per cent of the country’s urban waste, can be converted into compost, thereby solving half of India’s waste problems. Plastic bottles are the biggest contributor in waste piling up as one million bottles are bought every minute throughout the world. To give the required thrust, a state policy has been developed to bring a thousand village panchayats to instal aerobic bins to process organic waste.Studies show Sleevemaker TM-G-1Heat Shrinkable Sleeve that plastic is produced more than any other human-made material, except cement and steel.The TMC has an agreement with Clean Kerala Co Ltd for treating the plastic and e-waste.

The total plastic production in 2015 was 380 million tonnes. Likewise, the mandatory door-to-door collection of segregated waste is hardly followed in most cities. Out of the 8. So far more than 1. There is a separate provision for collecting the plastic waste from households and institutions for further treatment at the rate of Rs 60 per month. There is also poor institutional capacity and low political will to address the problem. Beautiful City”, in 2014, after its failure over centralised solid waste management. The most common disposal practice across the country is uncontrolled dumping.Every year the world uses 500 billion plastic bags. These are further taken to respective shredding units and handed over to Clean Kerala Co for further use. 50 percent of the plastic, we use is single-use or disposable. Only dry and clean plastic covers, packets and other materials are collected and received at the designated counters.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (2015), an average of 25,940 tonnes of plastic waste is generated every day by the Tier-I and Tier-II cities in India.Beat Plastic Pollution”, the theme for World Environment Day 2018, is a call for action and invites us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our cities, water bodies, forests and our own health.The decentralised waste management is successfully implemented in the city of Alappuzha in Kerala as well.5 lakh households are processing the bio-degradable waste at source and around 50 biogas plants have been constructed.3 billion tonnes of plastic produced so far, only around nine per cent was recycled, 12 per cent was incinerated, while the remaining 79 per cent was discarded in landfills or dumped in open spaces across the country. At present, there is no collection of bio-degradable waste within the corporation limits. While India is hosting this year’s World Environment Day, it’s the right time for our cities to learn and replicate some of these successful models and contribute positively towards addressing the menace of plastic. The TMC also installed community biogas plants, community-owned aerobic bins, for those households who do not have the space to keep kitchen bins or fix pipe bins, in each and every ward of the city. This is to encourage the public to take responsibility of the garbage they generate. While the rules place liabilities on the producers of plastic waste to contribute to its collection and disposal, this is practically unworkable as most producers are small and informal.

But a greater push and clarity is needed to ensure its effective implementation. Strict penalty with fines ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 are levied on those who dump their waste in public. The market for compost has enormous potential in India, which is predominantly a agriculture-based country and many states moving towards organic farming.Consider the غير مجاز مي باشدt of disposal.The Solid Waste Management Rules of 2016 and the Plastic Waste Management Rules of 2016 are a welcome move.The experiments by Thiruvananthapu-ram and Alappuzha with decentralised waste management thus have inspired other municipalities to successfully replicate the same models within the state.The TMC supplied required number of waste disposal and treatment systems like three-layered bucket-sized kitchen bins and pipe bins free of غير مجاز مي باشدt or at nominal غير مجاز مي باشدt to its residents.Consider the tale of two cities from Kerala

 

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To Decompose Creating Health Hazards

PM Modi gave a clarion against single-use plastic in his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast and his address to the nation on the Independence Day, the renowned artist from Odisha said.The Padma awardee has represented India in more than 60 international sand sculpture championships and festivals around the world and won many prizes for the country.Pattnaik said he decided the theme after being inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modicampaign to shun single-use plastic."On the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, I want to appeal to the people not to use single-use plastic to save our environment," said the renowned artist.

Bhubaneswar: Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh with 1000 plastic bottles around it at Puri beach to give a mesغير مجاز مي باشدe against single-use plastic to save the environment.Stating that his creation is aimed at making people aware of the ill effects of plastic on the environment, Pattnaik said plastic, if not recycled, takes up to a thousand years to decompose creating health hazards.Most of his sand creations are based on important social issues aimed at creating awareness in society, he said.Pattnaik further recalled that he won China film composite plastic label the Peoples Choice award at the Boston International Sand Art Championship 2019 where he showcased his sand sculpture based on the global issue of plastic pollution.The 10-ft high sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh was created by using 5 tonne of sand, while about 1000 plastic bottles were installed around it, he said.Created on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, the sculpture carries the mesغير مجاز مي باشدe "Say no to single-use plastic" and "Save our environment" composed on it

 

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Despite this, they refused to co-operate with us

Notices have been issued to 26 people for not paying the fine.However, BMC officials have refuted the allegations.Mumbai: Within days of the plastic ban implementation, several city-based traders have accused the BMC officials of extortion while levying fine for banned plastic.”“The BMC should take action against these officials for not misusing their authority and threatening the officials,” said Deepak Chheda, general secretary, AGYM.

We even told them that we would not fine them. They have alleged that even the permitted items are being fined by the civic officials. Sangeeta Hasnale, assistant municipal commissioner, said, “This is not correct. One of the vendors was fined for using the bag, which is usable under the ban. Hence we had to take action against them.”Meanwhile, on the fourth day of plastic ban implementation, the BMC seized 972 kgs of banned plastic and collected a fine of 10.

Despite this, they refused to co-operate with us. A small-time tailor was fined for Rs 5000 even when his daily earnings are not that much.In a letter to civic chief Ajoy Mehta, Akhil Ghatkopar Yyapari Mandal (AGYM), one of the prominent traders association in the city, said, “During the action, the BMC SEALUP-E3 Sealing Cover Film team of inspectors were threatening the shopkeepers and treating them as criminals. In fact, we had requested the traders to deposit their stock of banned plastic to us. The plastic ban squad visited 13,501 shops on Tuesday