DEHRADUN: The administration of Dehradun cantonment has been fighting plastic menace by using its waste in making eco-bricks, park benches, plastic sheets, and other items.
Under the effort to minimise the use of plastic inside the cantonment, it is also promoting alternative to plastic bags in the market places by setting up ‘thaila-ghars’ (bag houses) where they sell cloth bags made of old clothes and bedsheets by the women empowerment centres, at cheap prices.
Informing more about the environment-friendly steps taken under the leadership of Maj Gen Sanjeev Khatri, general officer commanding, Uttarakhand sub-area under which Dehradun cantonment falls, Lt Col Manish Srivastava, PRO defence, Dehradun, said the “cantonment also uses bio-toilets made out of waste plastic sheets equipped with bio-digesters which convert wastes into liquid.”
“The cantonment boasts of 28 beautiful parks among which one has a walking track that has been created out of interlocking tiles made out of PET bottles and plastic waste which turned out to be more durable than the concrete paver blocks,” said Lt Col Srivastava.
He further informed that the cantonment has developed several community kitchen gardens, run with the help of rainwater harvesting projects.
“Due to these initiatives, the cantonment has received several accolades in the past few years which include the national award for ‘innovation and best practices’ in Swachh Survekshan, 2020-21. We are committed towards adopting more such environment-friendly steps in the future too,” added Maj Gen Khatri.
Under the effort to minimise the use of plastic inside the cantonment, it is also promoting alternative to plastic bags in the market places by setting up ‘thaila-ghars’ (bag houses) where they sell cloth bags made of old clothes and bedsheets by the women empowerment centres, at cheap prices.
Informing more about the environment-friendly steps taken under the leadership of Maj Gen Sanjeev Khatri, general officer commanding, Uttarakhand sub-area under which Dehradun cantonment falls, Lt Col Manish Srivastava, PRO defence, Dehradun, said the “cantonment also uses bio-toilets made out of waste plastic sheets equipped with bio-digesters which convert wastes into liquid.”
“The cantonment boasts of 28 beautiful parks among which one has a walking track that has been created out of interlocking tiles made out of PET bottles and plastic waste which turned out to be more durable than the concrete paver blocks,” said Lt Col Srivastava.
He further informed that the cantonment has developed several community kitchen gardens, run with the help of rainwater harvesting projects.
“Due to these initiatives, the cantonment has received several accolades in the past few years which include the national award for ‘innovation and best practices’ in Swachh Survekshan, 2020-21. We are committed towards adopting more such environment-friendly steps in the future too,” added Maj Gen Khatri.
