In order to make the city plastic free, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has started an initiative wherein for discarding plastic bottles and stuffs made of plastic, incentives will be given. This incentive will come in shape of a exchange offer of taking single-use plastic from residents and giving them food grains of the same weight.
As said by Joint commissioner of MCG, Indrajeet Kulharia, Rag pickers are the ones who reach last mile to collect plastics. So MCG brought such a scheme for them to collect as much plastics from the city as they can and recycle it for constructive purpose like making roads.
“We have exchanged 50 kg rice from an outlet situated at old MCG office located at Civil Lines on Sunday. MCG has decided to install such outlets in every locality so that rag pickers can easily approach those centres and exchange plastics with food grains,” as said by Kulharia.
According to statement made by Amit Khatri, the commissioner of MCG, such an offer will work in the long run to make city plastic free which will ultimately save soil and environment.”
Here in this case, rag pickers can make huge difference with their contribution to save the environment and hence MCG is encouraging them, Khatri said.
“We should have to put break on pollution so that our next generation would live in clean environment,” as said by Khatri.
