Previously chief minister k chandrasekhar rao announced that the state would ban the use of single use plastic. Even though the modalities on how to enforce the ban are yet to be finalized, Mulugu, a newly formed district in the state has come up with a plan to eliminate single-use plastic. Furthermore for starters, Mulugu District collector C Narayan Reddy has come up with the ‘1 kg rice for 1 kg plastic’ initiative, which encourages citizens to collect single-use plastics and exchange it for 1 kilogram of rice.
Meanwhile the initiative was started on october 16, and since then authorities have collected 33,200 kgs of plastic. Apparently Mulugu has a total of 174 Gram Panchayats, and the authorities had set up single-use plastic collection points in every Gram panchayat office. District collector says “It is very simple, the citizens need to drop the plastic at these collection points and based on how much it weighs, the equal quantity of rice would be given”.
Moreover DC claims the idea for the ‘1 kg rice for 1 kg plastic’ came during a school competition. He said “In Jakaram village, we held a competition for schools. We promised them a cricket kit if they collected 1,000 kgs of plastic and they performed the task. So, we thought that if we give some incentive, people would actively participate in the program.” According to the District collector, there is overwhelming support from the people for the initiative.
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