Grassroots India Beginning To Beat Plastic Pollution
By Sudha Ramachandran
BANGALORE (IDN) – A 32-year-old Rajeswari Singh launched on a six-week marathon mission on World Earth Day setting out to walk some 1,100 kilometres from Vadodara in western India to reach New Delhi on World Environment Day on June 5, spreading a simple message ‘Stop using plastic’, and accentuating it by forgoing all the way any kind of plastic packaged drinks or food.
In fact, she hasn’t used any kind of plastic over the past decade. Besides, her message echoes the theme of this year’s World Environment Day – ‘Beat plastic pollution’ – with India, among the world’s top ten consumers of plastic, playing global host. (P06) | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF…