This State Govt. will install 2,500 Plastic Bottle Crushing Machines at Public Places

April 20,2018:

The machines, which State will obtain through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds for free, will be installed at tourist spots, gardens, markets and other areas with higher footfall.

Maharashtra State Govt, in order to ensure proper disposal of the plastic bottles will soon install 2,500 plastic bottle crushing machines at public places with larger footfall areas across the State.

Of these, 500 would be installed in Mumbai. Local body, which is the implementing agency for plastic ban, will select places for installation in public areas.

Senior Civic Official stated that, “We are getting more machines, around 2,000, to install across the state. We need maximum machines at public places. Two different machines have been installed at BMC headquarters for demonstration and it has received a good response.”

One of the members of the plastic manufacturing associations stated that,“There is no pre-decided number yet, but maximum machines will be placed in public places. We are looking forward to sit with the government to request them to exempt more items from the plastic ban, since it will affect lakhs of jobs across the state.”

Maharashtra Govt. had on March 23,2018 imposed a ban on purchase, sale, distribution and storage of single-use plastic along with thermocol items and polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate esters bottles of less than 0.5 litres. It later lifted the ban on all small PET and PETE bottles having carrying capacity of less than half litre.

Source Hindustan Times