Plan @ Earth, an NGO, has come to the aid of Paravur residents by
launching an extensive project to reduce and recycle the plastic waste.
Organised by the Health Department of Paravur Municpality, the project
was launched by Paravur municipal chairperson Valsala Prasannakumar.

Since
November 24 Plan @ Earth has been taking awareness classes among the
residents of Paravur Municipality in every wards. The first set of
plastic waste collected was sent for recycling on Tuesday for the
residents Green Land Resident Association of Ward 8.

The waste thus collected would be sorted graded and sent for recycling to ITC Ltd in Coimbatore.

Once
the awareness classes are over, the collection would start and would
continue on a regular basis. The residents are paid at the rate of `1
per kilo for the clean plastic waste collected. Along with this, the
office bearers of Plan @ Earth also plans train the residents on how to
make their own shopping bags out of old clothes so that the usage of
plastic carry bags comes down.