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Mangaluru: City corporation to crack down on business establishments over single use plastic

  •   Tue, Dec 20 2022 06:33:24 PM

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Mangaluru, Dec 20: The hotels, shops, malls and street vendors that come under the Mangaluru City Corporation limit have been informed that according to the Order No. FEE 17EPC2012 passed by the Karnataka Government dated 11.03.2016, single use plastic has been banned. This includes plastic buntings, plastic flex, plastic plates, plastic flags, spoons, thermocol and things made of micom. Accordingly, the revised solid waste management Order No. AKK:571/(E) dated 12-08-2021 has been implemented on 01-07-2022.

Despite the order, several establishments have been using banned plastic materials and causing inconvenience to the environment as well as waste management, the order has observed also adding that animals have been consuming waste from the discarded plastic bags and dying. It has been pointed out that the tender coconut vendors have been using plastic.


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The order warns that the city corporation officials will be seizing any or all plastic materials. Lawful action will be initiated against vendors that continue to use plastic. The plastic flex and banners raised will be removed. Those who put up similar banners will face lawful action as well. "These materials only deface the beauty of the city. The printers of these materials will come under the ambit of offenders. Their license will be cancelled and a fine shall be imposed," cations the order.

The members concerned have been asked to take necessary preventive measures.

 

 

 
  

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  • Umesh Rao, Mangaluru

    Wed, Dec 21 2022

    The MCC must be joking. Every street corner is plastered with flex banners showing the photographs of all the local politicians including Vedvyas Kamath who has an office in the corporation office itself. Apart from this the streets across the city are littered with rubbish/ rubble and overgrown with weeds/ wild plants. Roads and pavements have been dug up everywhere and then left unsurfaced. GAIL is a major culprit. They have left behind a trail of broken roads and pavements. On Kadri Kambala road they have put cement markers, to mark the location of their pipes, on the side of the road where it meets the pavement. These markers are proving to be a danger for vehicles, when they try to park on the side of the road. Some of these markers are already broken. Road signs damaged or broken in accidents are never replaced. Street lights go out of order and are never repaired.. Black spots filled with garbage, overflowing sewage are raising a stink across the city. The Mangaluru City Corporation is on a despicable condition.

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  • Prashanth, Mangalore,

    Wed, Dec 21 2022

    It has been notice that there are large scale plastic consumption of single use plastic in mass dinners and tea parties that are conducted for weddings and many many other public functions where SUP played, cups, spoons and forks are used and they are very very carelessly thrown away.this has to be taken care of for example when using water tumbler first you can serve water in that then lassi can be given after that and also be used along with paisa finally resulting in a3 fold reduction of waste

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  • Prashanth, Mangalore,

    Wed, Dec 21 2022

    It has been notice that there are large scale plastic consumption of single use plastic in mass dinners and tea parties that are conducted for weddings and many many other public functions where SUP played, cups, spoons and forks are used and they are very very carelessly thrown away.this has to be taken care of for example when using water tumbler first you can serve water in that then lassi can be given after that and also be used along with paisa finally resulting in a3 fold reduction of waste

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  • Karuna, Bengaluru

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    Bengalureans are slowely learning to live without single use plastic,yes there are few items like milk sachet which use plastics But I understand they are now packed in degradeable plastics. There is no harm in implementing such s good policy in a highly educated districts of Dakishna Kannada and Udupi

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  • Dylan, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    This is only talk for sometime and after a few weeks plastic will be used as usual. Plastic in all forms should be banned especially SUP single use plastic. This is only a fake order we have heard a lot of this.

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  • Praveen, surathkall

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    good move , but also control/ put a full stop on places of "weekly sante" where plastic bags are used abundantly

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  • mohan prabhu, mangalore/canada

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    How will the government stop prepackaged food items like loaves of bread, plantains sold in bunches in bags in the grocery stores, and all sorts of foods which amount far more than single use plastic bags carried by shoppers. Often these bags can be used to package other goods, including waste for disposal along with the bags. Large Garbage in plastic bags is allowed and they are much bigger in size than small quantities of food which are sold in groceries. Will the milk sold in plastic bags be okay; how else will you pack milk other than glass bottles or plastic bottles? Government should use brain its head, not in the bottom outlet. Gandinth mendu?

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  • Praveen, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    Instead of putting pressure on the vendors/ business by the ban on single use plastic, government has to order all the shopping malls & other petty shops to give biodegradable plastics for free. Due to this single use plastic bags ban, the malls are making extra money selling paper bags and cloth bags in return pressurising the customer. Before all this, the malls use to give away carry bags for free.

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  • Eva, Kirem

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    Very good move. How brilliant our management is!! First you should stop manufacturing banned items. It is just like arresting drug consumers not sellers.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    I think now the riders group in MCC are very happy that from tomorrow they will start riding. And along with that no office work.

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  • MIA, udupi

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    Simple solution just close the plastic bag manufacturing company rather than making this hangama...

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  • Evans C Sumitra, Udupi/New York, USA.

    Wed, Dec 21 2022

    MIA, udupi, I fully agree with your comments but it will not work as many factors are involved. You mark my words.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 20 2022

    How many more times will you release these orders when vendors are openly using third rate recycled plastic bags even for food items even in medium sized restaurants???

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