Festival Waste Pollutes, Pulwama Sweepers Urge People to Ditch Polythene for a Cleaner Environment

Festival Waste Pollutes, Pulwama Sweepers Urge People to Ditch Polythene for a Cleaner Environment A shopkeeper said in Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir that whether it is a festival of Hindus or Muslims or Sikhs, mostly polythenes are used and discarded as waste. But the Government should seriously think and ban it as polythenes do not decompose. When thrown in rivers, drains, or roads, it clogs drains and chokes rivers. It has become a painful problem, the shopkeeper lamented. The whole public uses polythenes, complained the sweeper community in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district. We appeal to them not to use polythenes. We request them to use paper bags. Polythene not only wastes land, it also reduces water. We have to keep telling people to segregate waste and give us dry waste and wet waste separately. We send waste collection vehicle with clear demarcation for dry and wet waste to collect each kind of waste. Be it Diwali of Hindus, Eid of Muslims or big day of Sikhs, we are working and tell them not to use polythenes. In the whole town around 55 people are working to sweep the roads clean. The shopkeeper in Pulwama village of Jammu & Kashmir showed paper bags which decompses and becomes soil. This does not tear and does not harm the environment. Use paper bags which is good for our society and environment, appealed the shopkeeper.