Mangalore: Despite the banning of thin plastic bags that keep rolling on roads, and flying in the winds due to strong breeze, plastic light materials are seen every where in city, in garbage dumps, dust bins, and on roadsides in moving condition and even on the middle part of roads, dragged there by crows and street dogs, to search for food.

The solid waste materials deface the area in a national sanitary and clean city the awards notwithstanding, what is sent to Pachanady final dumping place for solid waste disposals is only the plastic covers in which all kinds of home refuse materials, such as vegetables rotten meat pieces, garden garbage, and such other rejected items placed at the door gate or even roadside of all households.

The municipal lorry comes twice a week and the workers clean the mess amidst unbearable stink emanating from the rotting garbage

The large ‘use me’ garbage dumping bins are not often used by citizen, and they depend on plastic bags available after market purchases to pack their waste items.

The plastic needs to be firmly banned and we must use old paper packing materials, because dumb animals around dumping areas, eat plastic covers and die of poisonous food materials in them.

To avoid the kind of tragedy we saw in Ottinene (on the Kundapur-Sirur road) last week, when 85 cattle heads perished in a day or to two and  lakhs of rupees in compensation had to be paid to owners of grazing cattle by the Govt.

The plastic bags containing rotten vegetables and meat should be kept away from the reach of such dump animals that graze for pasture on grass fields, and to eat anything that is scattered around.

The rotten vegetables can be fed as manure to coconut palms and plantain trees, by digging holes around the trees near at home and depositing the refuse there, and covering the same with mud.

Meat rejects can be separated from plastic bags and given direct, to the rubbish pickers.

The reject materials are converted into useful compost (organic), to feed plants in estates. The plastic waste should be fed to the refining units, as research has succeeded in making fuel oil, and diamonds, from plastic materials these days.