Today, the last Saturday of the month, is national cleaning day.
It is the second since the instrument came into force; as announced by the Office of the Prime Minister.
I wonder, would it not be much more effective to achieve the objective of public spaces cleanliness via enforcing a ban on polythene bags (kavera)?
Mark you, I share my reflections from a point of good active citizenship.
Do not misunderstand my intentions. I am not saying we do not need national cleaning days. We do.
Me thinks, however, a ban on kavera, would enable our national cleaning days to take on a tone of a wider public health event.
And not be bogged down by the need to clean and dispose off mounds of garbage, as is the case now.
Moreover, seeming ‘avoidable garbage mounds’ generated because of plenty of single use kavera.
Kavera have become deeply normalized, to the extent usage is expanding to cooking.
While I welcome efforts to educate people not to use kavera for cooking; it is too little, but not too late. About time!
All am saying is that the need for ‘no-cooking-with-kavera’ education may not have become necessary if a ban on single-use polythene bags was enforced.
You may be wondering why now again?
Well, I have recently picked up again my hobby to share non-academic reflections on how polythene bags are common hazardous material; and to advocate that they should be banned.
These are my two-bits in contribution to intentions to achieve objectives intended by the official national cleaning day. And which triggered me to get back into sharing my non-academic reflections on kaveera.
A polythene bag pollution free environment is the goal.
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