If you collect five plastic bottles and hand it over, PCMC would reward you with a chai, and if you collect 10, then there would be a vada-pav too! All this and more, as PCMC gears up to reduce plastic waste in the twin towns.For this initiative, PCMC will rope in small hoteliers or eateries and street food vendors. Garbage collectors or other citizens may collect empty plastic bottles thrown around and deposit them with these vendors. In return, they will be given tea and vada-pav. Later, the PCMC will reimburse the sellers. The civic body has invited applications for the initiative.
Under this initiative, small hoteliers and street vendors will work with the municipal corporation. After transferring the collected empty plastic bottles to the civic body, reimbursement of expenses incurred for tea and snacks will be made to the vendors. For this, interested persons have to apply and register with the civic body.
Applications can be submitted at the head office of the PCMC health department. For registration, hoteliers or vendors will need to have an official food licence as well as proper hygiene and cleanliness on their premises.
“The basic aim is to help reduce the number of empty water bottles thrown around in the city. Also, the poor will get a chance to have tea or a vada-pav free of cost. For this, we are inviting small restaurants or vendors who sell fast food in handcarts, especially in poor localities,” chief health officer at PCMC said.
“The payments to vendors will be done on a monthly basis and the civic body will collect all the bottles and send them to the fuel plant,” he added.
