C Shivakumar @ CHENNAI:
In a bid to curb the menace of banned single use plastics in the city, the state environment department has tied up with German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to install eight manjappai vending machines.
The machines shall be placed in Koyambedu market (Two of them), Koyambedu bus terminus, Marina Beach, Vandalur Zoo, T Nagar, Tambaram market and Mylapore Tank. The cloth bag for the light vending machines will be supported by a women's self help group linked through Hand in Hand Inclusive Development services, a non governmental organisation.
The initiative is being launched after erman Federal ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) in collaboration with Union ministry of Environment, Forest and climate change (MOEFF &CC) is implementing a Indo German Technical Cooperation project on 'Circular Economy Solutions (CES) preventing Marine Litter in Ecosystems' .
The CES project is jointly supporting the efforts of the state by installing eight manjappai vending machines. It is also learnt that the state has appointed a special task force to oversee the ban on single-use plastic besides conducting awareness and promotion of alternatives to prohibited single use items. However, street vendors and small eateries are feeling the pinch as they find alternative packaging products to be too expensive.
Sources said there are plans to conduct a study and survey to make High Court and Secretariat a single use plastic free campus. It is learnt that recently a high level meeting was conducted which was chaired by Chief Secretary to enforce the ban on single use plastics.
During the meeting, various strategies including having a green messenger in each school and making local bodies offices and panchayat offices be made single use plastics free campus. There has also been an idea to have a model district which is single use plastic free.
The Tamil Nadu government banned 14 types of one-time use and throw away plastic items on January 1, 2019, and reinforced the action under the 'People's Campaign Against Throw Away Plastics' on September 3, 2021. The Union government too pitched in and effected a ban on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of single use plastics, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene commodities, on July 1, 2022.
The plastic waste generation in Tamil Nadu was estimated at 4,31,472 tonnes in 2019-20, as per the annual report of the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department.
In a bid to curb the menace of banned single use plastics in the city, the state environment department has tied up with German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to install eight manjappai vending machines.
The machines shall be placed in Koyambedu market (Two of them), Koyambedu bus terminus, Marina Beach, Vandalur Zoo, T Nagar, Tambaram market and Mylapore Tank. The cloth bag for the light vending machines will be supported by a women's self help group linked through Hand in Hand Inclusive Development services, a non governmental organisation.
The initiative is being launched after erman Federal ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) in collaboration with Union ministry of Environment, Forest and climate change (MOEFF &CC) is implementing a Indo German Technical Cooperation project on 'Circular Economy Solutions (CES) preventing Marine Litter in Ecosystems' .
The CES project is jointly supporting the efforts of the state by installing eight manjappai vending machines. It is also learnt that the state has appointed a special task force to oversee the ban on single-use plastic besides conducting awareness and promotion of alternatives to prohibited single use items. However, street vendors and small eateries are feeling the pinch as they find alternative packaging products to be too expensive.
Sources said there are plans to conduct a study and survey to make High Court and Secretariat a single use plastic free campus. It is learnt that recently a high level meeting was conducted which was chaired by Chief Secretary to enforce the ban on single use plastics.
During the meeting, various strategies including having a green messenger in each school and making local bodies offices and panchayat offices be made single use plastics free campus. There has also been an idea to have a model district which is single use plastic free.
The Tamil Nadu government banned 14 types of one-time use and throw away plastic items on January 1, 2019, and reinforced the action under the 'People's Campaign Against Throw Away Plastics' on September 3, 2021. The Union government too pitched in and effected a ban on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of single use plastics, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene commodities, on July 1, 2022.
The plastic waste generation in Tamil Nadu was estimated at 4,31,472 tonnes in 2019-20, as per the annual report of the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department.
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