BHUBANESWAR: As part of its town beautification and environment protection programmes, the Puri civic body has clamped restriction on production and use of polyethylene products within its limits with immediate effect.
The temple town, that receives the lion’s share of tourists and pilgrims coming to the State, generates about 30 tonnes of waste in a day of which nearly 90 per cent could be recycled for being bio-degradable, informed municipal officials.
Polyethylene products count for four per cent of the waste and since it can not be recycled, it chokes the drainage systems and natural regeneration of ground water, he pointed out.
It can not even be burnt out for the danger of air pollution, he added.
The Municipality has formed a squad that would enforce the restriction and penalise the erring producers and users of the banned polyethylene.
