Even following 1 12 months of ban on one-use plastic, traders flout norms in Visakhapatnam | Visakhapatnam Information – Periods of India
By Siva Gorripati
VISAKHAPATNAM: Even just after 1 calendar year of the ban on solitary-use plastic in the Visakhapatnam, traders of numerous categories are however flouting the norms and producing plastic waste in scores of tonnes, stressing the authorities.
According to Bigger Visakhapatnam Municipal Company (GVMC), the metropolis has been generating 400 tonnes of plastic squander every working day of a whole squander of much more than 1,000 tonnes, which is dumped in the 101 acres extent of the dumping lawn in Kapuluppada on the outskirts of the town.
The GVMC authorities pressed the enforcement teams and autos across the city and seized 15,000 kgs of plastic including covers, carry bags, and other solitary-use plastic items below 75 microns thickness in the metropolis in just 15 times. Suggests 1000 kgs of plastic in each and every working day.
It is recalled that the GVMC had banned solitary-use plastic within just its boundaries from June 5 of last year. The authorities experienced started out an awareness campaign for help from the public. But the GVMC’s strategy to distribute 6 lakhs additional fabric bags to the community is but to be carried out. This prepare was announced by the GVMC right after it experienced concluded 100 days of ban on plastic final calendar year.
“The authorities need to provide an choice to plastic when they planned to ban plastic. People are nevertheless making use of single-use plastic. There need to be stringent punishment or penalty for the flouting of norms by the traders or businessman,” a retired trainer N Ranga Rao reported.
All over 9,000 kgs of plastic were seized in a solitary day as the GVMC experienced taken up the particular generate with heads of the numerous wings and employees, the more commissioner sanitary and wellbeing wing Dr V Sanyasi Rao told TOI.
He extra that drives would carry on, and the community need to also extend assist to defend the natural environment, which will defend the wellness of the public.
The GVMC warned the traders that it would initiate motion and impose penalties from them if they flout the plastic ban norms. It has initiated enforcement groups with autos. All over 600 Clap motor vehicles are collecting the squander from door to door in the town to about 37 transfer stations, from in which the rubbish would shift to Kapuluppada Dumping Yard.
VISAKHAPATNAM: Even just after 1 calendar year of the ban on solitary-use plastic in the Visakhapatnam, traders of numerous categories are however flouting the norms and producing plastic waste in scores of tonnes, stressing the authorities.
According to Bigger Visakhapatnam Municipal Company (GVMC), the metropolis has been generating 400 tonnes of plastic squander every working day of a whole squander of much more than 1,000 tonnes, which is dumped in the 101 acres extent of the dumping lawn in Kapuluppada on the outskirts of the town.
The GVMC authorities pressed the enforcement teams and autos across the city and seized 15,000 kgs of plastic including covers, carry bags, and other solitary-use plastic items below 75 microns thickness in the metropolis in just 15 times. Suggests 1000 kgs of plastic in each and every working day.
It is recalled that the GVMC had banned solitary-use plastic within just its boundaries from June 5 of last year. The authorities experienced started out an awareness campaign for help from the public. But the GVMC’s strategy to distribute 6 lakhs additional fabric bags to the community is but to be carried out. This prepare was announced by the GVMC right after it experienced concluded 100 days of ban on plastic final calendar year.
“The authorities need to provide an choice to plastic when they planned to ban plastic. People are nevertheless making use of single-use plastic. There need to be stringent punishment or penalty for the flouting of norms by the traders or businessman,” a retired trainer N Ranga Rao reported.
All over 9,000 kgs of plastic were seized in a solitary day as the GVMC experienced taken up the particular generate with heads of the numerous wings and employees, the more commissioner sanitary and wellbeing wing Dr V Sanyasi Rao told TOI.
He extra that drives would carry on, and the community need to also extend assist to defend the natural environment, which will defend the wellness of the public.
The GVMC warned the traders that it would initiate motion and impose penalties from them if they flout the plastic ban norms. It has initiated enforcement groups with autos. All over 600 Clap motor vehicles are collecting the squander from door to door in the town to about 37 transfer stations, from in which the rubbish would shift to Kapuluppada Dumping Yard.