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

Celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, the 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 the harmful effects of single-use plastic.The hospital administration along with 400 participants including the society of young scientists and, the entire hospital staff pledged to get rid of single-use plastic from the hospital campus. AIIMS bans single-use plastics “In the past, we had organised ‘Kaya Kalap Abhiyan’ to make people aware about cleanliness. Now, as our Prime Minister has said that India should ban single-use of plastic, we at AIIMS have taken a pledge to curtail the use of plastic. For this, we will work on the lines of - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” Dr. DK Sharma, Medical Superintendent said while talking to a news agency. “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 further reuse and recycle,” Dr. Sharma said. READ | India to generate 175 GW of clean energy by 2022: Harsh Vardhan While attending an event last week, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan had pressed on the importance of sensitisation to reduce plastic usage. “We have to make a plastic-free India. So, we need to sensitise our children. We have to educate school children to curtail the use of single-use plastic in their daily lives. They should be taught to segregate plastic waste, and then storing it in a separate bin and send it to the waste collection centre. We have also appealed to industry people not to make plastic packaging,” he stated. READ | PM Modi sets the target of 2022 to free India from single-use plastic PM Modi sets 2022 deadline While addressing a gathering at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on Thursday, PM Modi said that India has to achieve the goal of becoming single-use plastic-free by the year 2022. He said, “Sanitation, environment protection, and life protection, these three subjects were dear to Gandhi Ji. Plastic is a major threat to all three. Therefore, we have to achieve the goal of freeing the country from single-use plastic by the year 2022.” READ | J&K Guv takes part in plastic waste collection drive in Srinagar READ | PM Modi sets the target of 2022 to free India from single-use plastic (With Inputs from ANI)

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

The hospital administration along with 400 participants including the society of young scientists and, the entire hospital staff pledged to get rid of plastic

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