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Central Railways ponders means to deal with plastic bottles
Environment; plastic pollution
News
- On the wake of plastics ban in Maharashtra from June, central railways are exploring the ways to dispose of its plastic bottles.
Important Analysis
- Challenges:
- Dispose of stored plastic bottles.
- there is no mechanism of collecting the old bottles
- Use of plastic containers entering Maharashtra from other States.
2. Steps to be taken by railway
- Implementing a buyback policy for plastic bottles
- Installing plastic bottle crushing machines at major stations.
- Replace plastic cups with suitable paper or equivalent bio-degradable options at water-vending machines
3. There is still no clarification regarding the implementation of buy back policy.
