In order to attain Maharashtra Govt’s proposed ban on single-use plastic, Bruhat Mumbai Corporation’s (BMC) efforts to collect all the banned plastics is yielding the result. Since April, the municipal body has collected 120 tonnes of plastic. Plastic collection bins had been set up by Mumbai BMC at 25 locations in the city and also they had issued a helpline for housing societies in order to get plastic collected from their premises, said the Indian Express report. The deadline for getting rid of the single-use plastic is June 23 and after that BMC will start imposing fines to the defaulters.
108 tonnes of plastic had been collected through the helpline while around 45 tonnes had been collected from Vile Parle, Andheri East and Jogeshwari in K East-Ward, Indian Express report said. The Indian Express report further said that Byculla in E-ward had regurgitated 34 tonnes of it while 30 tonnes had come from Bandra and Santacruz (H-West). Andheri West and Jogeshwari West (K-West) had given up 16 tonnes of the plastic waste, said the
report.
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Nidhi Choudhari, Deputy Municipal Commissioner(Special) told the Indian Express that it had been less than a month since they(BMC) had launched the plastic waste pick up helpline number 180222357. She said that the response had been good so far and that they were expecting more people to come forward to get rid of plastic waste stacked at their homes.They(BMC) had posted the helpline number on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms and besides they had created awareness among vendors and hawkers, added Nidhi Choudhari.BMC has worked towards the ban of plastic systematically compared to the unsystematic and unplanned plastic ban in Kerala. In Thiruvananthapuram, the streets, rivers, public places everywhere are wastes dumped in heaps. Unlike the BMC which works for the people, Thiruvananthapuram corporation is more into political stunts and other rhetorics. In a farsighted move, the BMC has also put up a list of women self-help groups manufacturing cloth, jute and paper bags on the BMC website to offer the people an alternative to plastic.
In Mumbai, plastic collection bins are placed at Gateway of India, Girgaon Chowpatty, Juhu Chowpatty, Meenatai Thackeray Market (Dadar flower market), Mangaldas cloth market, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule market (Crawford market), Chembur market, Fashion Street, Chor Bazaar, Hindmata market, Zaveri Bazaar, Sainath market (Malad), Ghatkopar market, Mulund market, Lokhandwala market and various other
locations.
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