The Hindu 30.07.2013
Plastic disposal to be routed through schools
Children in the city are being given the task of
bringing washed and clean plastic waste from their home to school to
help the City Corporation dispose it of safely.
The
idea is of the Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust, a non-governmental
organisation, to help revive collection of plastic bags for safe
disposal.
The Corporation has banned plastic bags,
but collection of plastic from homes took a hit as households did not
hand over clean and washed waste to Kudumbasree workers.
The
Directorate of Public Instruction has given sanction to the trust to
carry out the collection in schools. Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb
will inaugurate a pilot project at the Government Girls’ Higher
Secondary School, Cotton Hill, on August 14.
Director
of Public Instruction A. Shajahan inaugurated an awareness class on the
project, titled My City, My Pride, in the school on Monday.
V.
Subhash Chandra Bose, Director of Communication and Capacity
Development Unit of the Water Resources Department, led a class on the
dangers of plastic waste and the need for its safe disposal.
The
plan is to make children in each school hand over clean plastic waste
to the teachers during the school assembly or lunch break on a specific
day every week. The trust will collect the waste from the school in a
day or two.
Plastic bottles, bags and wrappers will be collected in the initial stage and other plastic products in the coming months.
