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Drive against plastic to begin today

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decks have been cleared for the launch of an intensive campaign for a plastic-free district from Wednesday.

All local self-government institutions will be involved in the effort, district panchayat president Anavoor Nagappan and District Collector N. Ayyappan announced here on Tuesday.

The campaign will take off with a sanitation week.

All heads of public sector institutions in the district and employees have been directed to join the effort to clean up their workplaces and office premises on Wednesday.

Hospital managements and employees will join hands with political activists and voluntary workers to clean up hospitals on Thursday. The next day’s campaign will focus on clearing plastic waste from all public places in the district.

Local bodies have drawn up action plans for this effort.

Educational institutions from anganwadis to professional colleges will be made plastic-free campuses under a special drive planned for September 29.

Parent Teacher Associations, teachers’ unions and students’ organisations will be roped in to the effort.

The next day’s drive will focus on eliminating plastic from commercial institutions, wedding halls and hotels.

In a radical departure from previous efforts, a follow-up system will be put in place for maintenance of markets, public places and institutions cleaned up under the intensive campaign.

Youth and voluntary agencies, political parties, trade unions and service organisations, Kudumbasree units, residents’ associations or traders’ bodies will be entrusted with the responsibility for maintenance.

Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs M. Vijayakumar is scheduled to inaugurate the campaign for a plastic-free district at P.S. Nataraja Pillai Memorial School, Peroorkada, on Wednesday.

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