As part of its move to implement the ban on single-use plastics, the city’s civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has seized numerous plastics from various shops. Presently what happens to these plastics that have been seized? And the Bengaluru International Airport has come up with a solution use these plastics as an additive while laying roads.
Meanwhile the airport, which is undergoing expansion, will take over the plastics seized by BBMP to lay the roads within its premises. Apparently a formal handover event will take place at the BBMP headquarters on Monday at 4 pm and there will also be a meeting between BBMP Commissioner BH Anil Kumar, BBMP Mayor Gangambike Malikarjun, Deputy Chief Project Officer Raju Kaval and, Vice-President of Special Projects of the Kempegowda International Airport, sundar Chandramouli.
Moreover two trucks of over two tonnes of seized plastic will be taken to the airport after the event. Officials in the BBMP said that this was also a way to ensure that the seized plastics do not go back to the environment and will be given free of cost to the airport authorities and the BBMP has seized around 4,000 kg of plastics since January 2019.
