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Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Uttar Pradesh and Odisha to

Palike will make roads as tough ban use of plastic
as Teflon ollowing the Plastic ban in Maharashtra now Uttar

FPradesh and Odisha will also ban the use of plastic.
he Bruhat BengaluruMahanagara Palike in July will While uttar pradesh government issued an order to
Ttry out something called micro-surfacing, which impose a blanket ban on the use of plastic across the
makes roads waterproof. Cubbon Road has been chosen state from July 15, Odisha will ban the use of plastic
for the pilot project. It’s a 2-km stretch which does not in its five municipal corporation areas and the pilgrim
see too much traffic. Micro-surfacing involves coating the town of Puri from October 2 this year.
road with a 6-mm-thick slurry seal that reinforces the Speaking of the ban Uttar Pradesh State officials said
asphalting and keeps it from crumbling. Also as water the modalities of the ban were being worked out
do not seeps in to bitumen it is Water proof as well. and the department concerned has been asked to
The technology has been adopted broadly in overseas submit a blueprint as soon as possible, after which a
meeting will be held with the chief minister. “We have
decided to ban plastic in the entire state from July 15,
I appeal that after July 15 plastic cups, glasses and
polythene should not be used at all. This will need the
participation of everyone,” the message in Hindi, was
released on CM’s Twitter account. Details were being
worked out to ensure that the ban can be enforced
effectively, officials were quoted as saying by PTI.

Whereas Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik while
speaking on environmental awareness during ‘Ama
Mukhyamantri Ama Katha’ programme at the state
secretariat on Tuesday, chief minister Naveen Patnaik
international locations, however is still comparatively said the ban on plastic will be imposed in Bhubaneswar,
new to India. Outside of Bengaluru, it's been successfully Cuttack, Rourkela, Berhampur and Sambalpur municipal
attempted in Chandigarh and Chennai; final yr, Hyderabad corporations and Puri town from October 2 in the first
additionally micro-surfaced its Outer Ring Road ahead of phase.Later, the use of plastic will be completely
the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. banned across Odisha in the next two years.

Last year, BBMP had tied up with Hindustan Colas Ltd “If we all plant trees and take care of it, the
(Hincol) to take a look at out micro-surfacing (it was environment will be protected and human beings
once known as ‘Road Doctor’) on Ballari Road on an can live in good condition and we can work for the
experimental foundation. But Hincol pulled out of the development of our family and society,” Patnaik said
venture because it was once ‘now not feasible’ for it to during the programme. Officials said the departments
convey down equipment. BBMP has now tied up with an of housing and urban development and panchayati raj
Ahmedabad-based company, Elsamex, which carried out have been asked to execute the order in urban and
the micro-surfacing in Hyderabad final year. The company rural areas respectively. The forest and environment
claims that roads will final at least 5 years with micro- department will monitor the plastic pollution control
surfacing as water does now not seep into the bitumen and works across the state.
corrode it. And since roads develop into water resistant, Officials said Odisha generates about 27,859 tonnes
vehicles do not skid when it rains. Praveen Lingaiah, of plastic waste per annum.On January 26, 2004,
Executive Engineer, Traffic Engineering Cell, BBMP the state had banned the use, sale, import, storage
stated, “Micro-surfacing is a mix of polymerized bitumen and littering of polythene carry bags of less than 20
emulsion. The corporate has given one-year guarantee. microns thickness under Section 5 of the Environment
(Protection) Act, 1986.

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