Plastic excusues
This attached newspaper report gives multiple reasons why the corporation is unable to deal with the plastics crisis.
1. "The territory is too big"
2. "The quantity is too much"
3. "There are too many shops - it is difficult"
4. "80% is illegal, not locally made",
(sounds like we are dealing with the NARCOS or arms dealers)
5. "The recycling facility is too low". (Why did you not make more and bigger facilities earlier?)
Every issue has been discussed from years, in fact from 2008!
Recently, suggestions made by communities have been scoffed at or ignored. The corporation, despite appearances, hates to acknowledge or accept citizen's inputs.
GVMC themselves have pumped 8,00,000 plastic water sachets in a single day into the ecosystem during the recent Giripradikdhana.
The Simahchalam Devasthanam, supported by the administration, have pumped another 12,00,000 water sachets into the city as GVMC and APPCB stood by watching.
Lakhs of bottled water is given away every season at function halls and hotels during weddings. Yet our Corporation does not flex its muscles and demand that this practice is stopped right now.
Our stormwater drain systems are carrying thousands of tons of plastics into the sea. More so during rains. Most of it comes back to our beaches making them an eyesore.
It is obvious that these plastics must be trapped and recovered for recycling BEFORE they land up in the sea. Infrastructure is required. But proposal after proposals are made and the projects are shelved.
Whenever we want to talk to our administration of these issues they are busy with malaria or dengue cases. These are symptoms of the filth that we have created in our city. Yet we continue to deal with the symptoms and not the cause.
We have created an ecosystem of administrative defeatism. Weak decisions and procrastination rule our city.
This attached news report is a list of excuses and we should treat it as such.
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