BMC opens centres to make eco-friendly bags under CYOB
| Date :16-Jun-2019 |
Staff Reporter:
Under ‘Carry Your Own Bag’ (CYOB) campaign, in various areas, Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started centres to make eco-friendly bags. Various organisations like Mahashakti Seva Kendra is going door to door to collect old clothes from public. The centres have started working at New Market, 10 number market. The clothes collected from the denizens are made into carry bags free of charge by these volunteers of the organisation.
This campaign has been started to raise awareness among public to cooperate in not using polythene bags for any purpose. BMC is making all efforts to ban single use polythene and spot fine activities are also being carried out by BMC squad regularly for this purpose. Various voluntary organisations in collaboration with BMC will be running this campaign at public places, vegetable market and other important places. BMC officials stated that, one person, on average, uses 5 to 6 kg polythene bags in a month and if he carries his own bag, then this amount of wastage can be stopped. Notably, an ambitious resolution piloted by India to phase out single-use plastics by 2022 is already in process. This campaign has been started mainly to support this resolution.
BMC is making all efforts to enforce previous commitments to ban plastic bags and similar disposables. The municipal corporation has also invited inputs from various community organisations and environmentalists to forge a common declaration regarding addressing a host of environmental challenges. BMC is geared up to decisively address the damage to ecosystems caused by the unsustainable use and disposal of single-use plastic products, including by phasing out most problematic single-use plastic products and to encourage public and private sector to find affordable and eco-friendly alternatives.