The Hindu 13.12.2013
Plastic collection centres for municipality
‘Susthira’ by Kannur civic body, KISAN
The Kannur municipality will set up plastic collection
centres in a bid to implement a practical project to battle the menace
of plastic carry bags in the town.
This was announced
at a meeting of representatives of residents’ associations, traders’
bodies, and managements of private hospitals and wedding halls in the
municipal area, held at the municipal council hall here, on Thursday.
The project christened ‘Susthira’ is being initiated jointly by the
municipality and the Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature
(KISAN).
Municipal chairperson, who chaired the
meeting, said that the project to make the town plastic-free was
conceived as a practical solution as no earlier efforts to ban plastic
carry bags had succeeded.
Municipal vice-chairman and
chairman of KISAN T.O. Mohanan said the declaration of the project
would be held on January 26 next year. Waste plastic carry bags would be
collected once or twice a week by the collection centres being started
by KISAN. The municipality is also planning a plastic recycling centre
in association with KISAN, he added. The volume of plastic waste
generated in the town was huge, he said.