Maha govt rewards students for collecting plastic waste

The Badnapur Municipality has undertaken an innovative activity called ‘Ghari Sathva, Shaalet Pathva’ where schools ask their students to collect plastic waste from home and deposit it in the schools. Later, the Maharashtra government rewards students for collecting and depositing waste while educating them about the disadvantages of plastic.

Badnapur: With plastic waste regarded as the severest environmental concern, the state government is taking all the effective initiatives to ban the use of single-use plastic.

In the wake to stop people from using plastic, the Maharashtra government is rewarding students who are collecting and depositing waste at their schools.

A civic body of Badnapur town in Maharashtra's Jalna district has undertaken an innovative initiative 'Ghari Sathva, Shaalet Pathva’ (Save it at home, send it to school) with a view of involving and educating children about the hazards of plastic waste, which takes hundreds of years to degrade.

Moreover, with this initiative, the school educates students to save the environment by not using plastic.

Students bring all the unused plastic material from home and collect it at school.

Schools have fixed the date on which a vehicle from the Badnapur municipal collects the plastic waste.

Many schools have taken part in the programme and each of them has collected at 500 quintals of plastic waste in just four months, chief officer Dr. Pallavi Ambhore of Badnapur Nagar Panchayat said while speaking to ETV Bharat.

He further added, "The move has also helped the civic body to cut down on the expenditure for waste segregation to a factory near Ahmednagar."

Encouraging students' efforts, Badnapur Police Inspector Khedekar rewarded students with study material and small rewards, to kindle their enthusiasm.