plastic ban

Sobha Quartz resident Anandhi Balaji recounts her experience in leading the community on the way to a more responsible and environment-friendly holistic lifestyle.

While the ubiquitous ‘carry-bag’ is at the receiving end of most citizen-centric moves against plastic usage, Raghu Varma draws attention to the many other buying choices we need to reconsider.

Citizens have joined their hands to celebrate the government’s move to ban single use disposable plastic items. Join them at Freedom Park on April 2nd.

The important story of the week – no rules or regulations for water tankers that most apartments are dependent on! What water are we drinking? The Plastic ban trending across the city: Koramangala, HSR Layout, Sanjay Nagar – who is next? All this and more…

HSR, Bellandur, Koramangala… Who’s next? The trend is sweeping Bengaluru – citizens are leading plastic bans in Bengaluru. Carry your own bag. Say no to plastic carry bag. Reject any single use plastic. If you are a shop owner, go for alternatives.

There are many cities in India that banned plastic in theory. How far did the the practical implementation go? What does Bengaluru have to learn from them?

There are no takers for low grade plastic, which is why the government has decided to ban it. There are ways to reuse the plastic waste, but they have not been found viable so far.

It was a tug of war between BBMP and plastic manufacturers. While the latter didn’t want to take responsibility for the plastics’ problem, BBMP says they have to share the burden of managing the plastic waste.

If you are among those who think eliminating plastic is not possible, here’s a real story that proves you wrong. It just needs smart thinking.

Say no to plastic bags. Carry your own bag to market, refuse plastic bags, re-use and minimise the usage of plastic bags. This seems to be the mantra for this month.