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For the love of plastic…

The City Corporation has announced plans to ban the use of plastic carrybags that pollute the environment long after they have been discarded. But many of the Kudumbasree units engaged in garbage collection find the plastic bags a convenience.

The garbage collectors urge households to keep their daily garbage tied up in plastic bags rather than in the green buckets supplied by the Corporation for storing organic waste. The reason is the ease of collecting the waste. The workers just take the bags from each house and dump them in the collection trays kept at a central location in a neighbourhood.

In the case of the buckets, they would have to collect the containers, tip them in the cart and return them to each house. The alternative is to cart the collection trays around the locality, an equally trying task and one best avoided.

Obviously, the campaign against the use of plastic is yet to reach the Kudumbasree units.

T. Nandakumar

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