Well, it is not just at the ***fresh stores, everything comes wrapped in plastic – be it tea, salt or sugar. Every shop, any shop offers a plastic bag to hold everything you buy. And, no one declines – anyone doing so is looked upon as a freak. Even our good old Ramanna – the man who has sold vegetables to us for over for the last twenty years, puts veggies into a plastic cover for my mother to carry it inside.
I am not very knowledgeable about plastics – but know enough to know that packaging plastic can never be recycled and is among the most dangerous kind. There have been some attempts now to use some of this to relay roads in Bangalorehttp://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/12/06/stories/2007120650920100.htm. But I don’t know how much difference this will make, given that it will probably re-use only a small fraction of all the plastic that the city junks daily.
Does Bangalore have a conscience? Don’t Bangalorean’s have a conscience? And, once again, do we care?
Across India, the only working solution seems to be strict legislation banning plastic covers/bags and levying a strict fine on anyone seen carrying it. All other attempts – posters, pleading seem to fall on deaf ears. Look at the difference this has made to Nilgirishttp://www.nilgiris.tn.gov.in/ANTIPLASTIC.htm or other hill districts in Tamilnadu. This is still addressing only a small fraction of the plastic wastes generated daily – but it still makes a big enough difference.
Does Bangalore have a conscience? Don’t Bangalorean’s have a conscience? And, once again, do we care?
Across India, the only working solution seems to be strict legislation banning plastic covers/bags and levying a strict fine on anyone seen carrying it. All other attempts – posters, pleading seem to fall on deaf ears. Look at the difference this has made to Nilgirishttp://www.nilgiris.tn.gov.in/ANTIPLASTIC.htm or other hill districts in Tamilnadu. This is still addressing only a small fraction of the plastic wastes generated daily – but it still makes a big enough difference.
2 comments:
I agree completely, we can be quite oblivious to these things in blore....sometimes, it gets pathetic.As u said, the only way is legisltion. Thank god they decided to ban plastic from lalbagh! Finally, atleast one part of blore is clean!
A post after my heart, Its not in banglore, its everywhere..the more plush the store, more they use plastic bags,some even huge ones, I wrote on my blog also about this trend of wrapping vegetables, in one day shopping I get 10 bags.
I say tht if u want to do it this in a western way then arrange to take them back like they do abroad. That way atleast it will be recycles, instead of coking drains and lying in the earth.
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