AlIMS pledges to boycott usage of single-use plastic on its campus

Celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday organised an awareness drive to educate people against single-use plastic. AIIMS has also launched a slogan- ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,’ to sensitise people over harmful effects of single-use plastic. hospital ministration along with 400 participants including society of young scientists and, entire hospital staff pledged to get rid of single-use plastic from hospital campus.

AIIMS bans single-use plastics

“In past, we h organised ‘Kaya Kalap Abhiyan’ to make people aware about cleanliness. w, as our Prime Minister has said that India should ban single-use of plastic, we at AIIMS have taken a pledge to curtail use of plastic. For this, we will work on lines of - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” Dr. DK Sharma, Medical Superintendent said while talking to a news ncy.

“We are doing separate segregation of biomedical waste and plastic waste here. We have hired a dedicated vendor to segregate plastic waste, sterilise, shred it in small particles for furr reuse and recycle,” Dr. Sharma said.

While attending an event last week, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan h pressed on importance of sensitisation to reduce plastic us.

“We have to make a plastic-free India. So, we need to sensitise our children. We have to educate school children to curtail use of single-use plastic in ir daily lives. y should be taught to segregate plastic waste, and n storing it in a separate bin and send it to waste collection centre. We have also appealed to industry people t to make plastic packaging,” he stated.

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PM Modi sets 2022 deline

While dressing a garing at Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedab on Thursday, PM Modi said that India has to achieve goal of becoming single-use plastic-free by year 2022. He said, “Sanitation, environment protection, and life protection, se three subjects were dear to Gandhi Ji. Plastic is a major threat to all three. refore, we have to achieve goal of freeing country from single-use plastic by year 2022.”

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(With Inputs from ANI)