The idea is all about changing our habit and distinguishing between organic and inorganic waste. In my opinion it will have some benefit for saving environment and it is going to easy the day to day job of municipality manual scavenging and also it is going to separate the plastic content from organic waste, which will help in planning further for plastic disposal in better way.
Currently in India, we are using plastic bags more in numbers as compared to other developed countries. Plastic has very bad impact on our environment and it is mostly non-recyclable. It spoils our rivers and farming land. Bigger concern for countries like India is the rate plastic usages are increasing day by day. In many of the countries it has been banned and India few of the states had banned plastic but it is almost impossible to implement the idea of banning plastic usage among people due to corruption, unawareness. Many of the household are involved in this business and shutting down it is not possible in a single day by some legislations. Because it has reached to our day to day life. Awareness can be a tool to reduce its usage among people and which can lead to shutdown of bodies which produces non-recyclable plastic. Or upcycling it might be started. One should start the awareness program on big levels in cities at least where information travel time is very less. Through SMSs, mails, posters on roads, ads etc could be possible way to do this. Government/local bodies should have instructions for coming Mall culture to Metros, Tier A , Tier B town to prevent the usage of non-recyclable plastic from their business model of delivering goods and other stuff to customers. Today when I visit shops to buy vegetables, daily use stuff, milk, books , anything shopkeeper handover all stuff in a polythene bag, now I can have two ways for avoiding usage of plastic in this case because first thing we have to accept that plastic comes to our contact in only this way.
One way of doing it could be, if we carry our own bag while visiting such places. Which is the old one. But what abut when we purchase packed items. And the other one could be if we start separating our organic and inorganic waste i.e. if we start separating plastic waste from the other one of anykind and dump it separately in some dumping zones which can be created for plastic only in societies, around parks, colonies, playgrounds, stations, and outside offices, business parks. It is a very simple practice which can help us in a bigger way. First of all the collection of plastic from the normal waste can be organized. It will help in identifying some special mechanism to dump this waste or if possible then upcycling (recycle and upcycle are two different concept) of this sort of waste. Second benefit of it could be, we can save thousands of children working in and around the roads for collection of plastic waste. In case if this can be handled by municipal corporations then on later stage if we can discover it as a revenue model then the money produced can be utilized in education, food, health care of these children.
