Accordingly in a bid to reduce single use plastics, the kamareddy district collector launched the 'sensitize -incentivize' campaign, where a half dozen eggs will be given to residents in exchange for handing over 2kg of plastic waste. Meanwhile the campaign comes after telangana Chief minister chandrasekhar rao-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>k chandrasekhar rao announced that the state would ban the use of single use plastic citing public health and environmental concerns.
Previously kamareddy district collector N Sathyanarayana announced that the plastic drive would be overseen by all panchayat, mandal and municipal staff. As per report a committee constituted by district officials, NGOs and traders’ associations would ensure there would be adequate eggs to whoever collects and gives plastic at selected collection points. Hence according to the district collector, around 14,900 kgs of single-use plastic were collected in three municipalities over the last three months, as part of the clean-up drive.
Moreover according to officials anyone can get eggs in exchange for plastic waste, such as bags, bottles or pouches and this isn’t the first such initiative in telangana and the mulugu district collector C Narayan Reddy had earlier come up with the ‘1 kg rice for 1 kg plastic’ initiative, to encourages citizens to collect single use plastics and exchange it for 1 kilogram of rice.
