March 18, 2020
A few cartons were used as makeshift dustbins
A few cartons were used as makeshift dustbins which eventually overflowed,
forcing school children to throw garbage on the grounds.The water bottling machine Suppliers
government had resolved to eliminate single-use plastic from India by 2022 to
deal with plastic pollution.
I simply fail to understand why they did not make
some arrangement for disposal of trash," said another teacher, Rashmi Guha.A few
cartons were used as makeshift dustbins which eventually overflowed, forcing
school children to throw garbage on the grounds."The entire area looked like a
dump yard. Around one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every
minute across the globe, according to the United Nations. Minutes after the
event ended, heaps of plastic water bottles could be seen in various enclosures
at Red Fort..India generates about 25,940 tons of plastic and more than 97,000
tons of solid waste per day, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change. The students were distributed refreshments, including
bananas and wafers, after the programme and in the absence of trash bins, they
disposed them off at the spot."Surprisingly, there was no arrangement of
dustbins for disposing off water bottles and other trash at such an important
event even when the Prime Minister had been stressing on cleanliness and
hygiene," said Namita Srivastava, a teacher who accompanied students for the
event.At an event organised to mark World Environment Day, India reaffirmed its
commitment to defeat plastic pollution.
Minutes after the event ended, heaps of
plastic water bottles could be seen in various enclosures where children and the
public were seated, indicating a lack of arrangement for garbage disposal at the
17th-century Mughal monument. (Photo: Twitter | ANI) New Delhi: A number of
plastic water bottles and banana peels lay scattered on the grounds of the Red
Fort after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day address, despite the
government's emphasis on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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