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Laloo's move

Sir, — The Railway Minister, Laloo Prasad Yadav's decision to replace plastic cups with earthen cups in trains will do more harm than good in the long run.

To produce earthen cups, the raw material used is clayish red or black soil of cultivable lands. Broken earthen cups can neither be reconverted into precious cultivable soil nor be made into fresh cups. As it is, with increase in construction work, we have lost a big quantity of cultivable soil.

V. Jeyapaul,
Rajapalayam, T.N.

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Sir, — The move may appear environment-friendly but the mud used for manufacturing these cups would have to come from agricultural land. And kilns in rural areas cause a lot of environment damage. There is also no recycling mechanism for used pots.

S. Mukund,
Chennai

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