CM to launch ‘Meendum Manjappai’ campaign today

CM to launch ‘Meendum Manjappai’ campaign today

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:23.12.2021

Chief minister MK Stalin on Thursday will launch ‘Meendum Manjappai’ campaign organised by the state pollution control board.

The campaign aims at reducing single-use plastic, which causes irreparable damage to the environment and natural resources.

A senior state pollution control board official said as per their observations, a plastic bag is used by a person for about 20 minutes. When this used plastic is discarded, it takes hundreds of years to get degraded.

Taking this into account, the state had banned14 types of materials. Due to the Covid-19 lockdown implementation of the ban slowed down. Now, the government is keen to take severe action against violators of the banned items, said the official. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, most of the people across the country used to carry cloth bags while going to buy vegetables, groceries or to hotels. Slowly, with the arrival of the plastic bags, the use of cloth bags was given up by the people.

In order to revive the practice, the board is launching the campaign. It will also organize an exhibition of items alternative to single-use plastics.

The campaign and exhibition will be held at Kalaivanar Arangam on Wallajah Road.

The board had also taken action against plastic bag making units. Some time ago, the board had appealed to the members of the public to inform it about the functioning of such illegal units. The board received a lot of information about such units, which were sealed, the official added.