March 27, 2020
The Supreme Court had recently reiterated its ban on plastic
(Representational image) New Delhi: On October 2, when the government was
celebrating the third anniversary of its dream project Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan,
Madhusudan Biswas, a resident of 24 Parganas in West Bengal sat on an indefinite
hungerstrike at Jantar Mantar in the capital, demanding a complete ban on
plastic and thermocol products.He said, "Every moment we survive with the help
of three components: water, oxygen, and food. Mr Biswas’ previous hunger strikes
were in his hometown in West Bengal where he sat for nine days without food, but
when the district administration said that the matter can be looked into only by
the Centre and not the states, he came thousands of Wholesale
48 Cavity-Preform Mould kilometres to Delhi "to be heard by the central
governmentâ€..†"There are millions of products which could be used as an
alternate of plastic products like jute and paper and cloth can be used as a
replacement of flex,†Mr Biswas added. Oxygen and food we get from soil, and
there are few products that destroy soil, as well as water and to protect them
from being contaminated we must ban thermocol, flex and plastic bags.
The
Supreme Court had recently reiterated its ban on plastic bags, saying that they
are a bigger threat to the country than nuclear bombs. Jute, as is known, is a
product of soil and soil doesn’t harm soil unlike plastic,†Mr Biswas said."So
we should look for a better substitute of this toxic called plastic.Teacher came
to city to meet PM, apprise him of seriousness of issue. Use of jute as an
alternate will not only help in nurturing environment, but it will also trigger
the farming and business involving jute.Thirty-four-year-old Mr Biswas, a
teacher by profession, sat on his third hungerstrike for environment with a hope
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi might recognise the seriousness of the issue,
as "we both want a Swacchhh Bharat and polythene-free Indiaâ€, he said.The
Supreme Court had recently reiterated its ban on plastic bags, saying that they
are a bigger threat to the country than nuclear bombs
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