CHENNAI: In an attempt to help the Chennai Corporation source plastic waste for its ambitious plastic road project, the Triplicane Merchants Association, on Wednesday, began a weekly waste collection drive.Members of the association on Wednesday went to over 200 shops and distributed pamphlets about the plastic road scheme as well as the importance of contributing plastic waste to the scheme.President of the association, V P Mani, said that a truck load of plastic wastes, pooled in from shops on Zam Bazar, Bharathi Salai and Quaid-e-Millet road in Triplicane, was handed over to the Deputy Commissioner of Zone 9, Sampath. Traders have been advised to collect plastic waste in their shops over a week’s time and hand it over to the assigned members who would come to their shops every Wednesday.Mani said that with plastic being a non-degradable substance, the project of laying plastic roads took care of the disposal issue. Plastic waste, when they find their way into rain water harvesting systems, clogged the pipes and rendered the mechanisms useless. Also, shopkeepers said that thin plastic covers were never taken for money in wastepaper marts. Therefore, it would be a prudent act to contribute the waste to the scheme. The members of the association said they would expand the collection drive to involve residents of the area as well from next week.
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