Rajkot: Along with the spread of virus, lockdown had also kept another menace under tight control — spread of plastic garbage. Plastic garbage waste generation got reduced by 50 to 70 percent.
While this figure was dervied at looking at plastic waste coming to Dhoraji and Upleta town of Rajkot, the hubs of plastic waste processing in the country, it has also upset the entire economy based on recycling plastic waste.
Waste including polythene bags, cement bags hurtled in to these two towns in truckloads from around 25 states. Here, 550 units processed 1,000 tonnes of garbage every day, which for the past five months have been starving for want of raw materials. At present, town gets around 300 to 500 tonnes of waste forcing many units to cut down on manhours.