Pune: Average contribution of plastic to the daily waste generated in Pimpri Chinchwad has almost doubled in the last five years, reaching 35% last year. In 2018-19, the average contribution of plastic to daily waste was 18.17%, while it was 9.
3% in the next two years. Currently, an average of 1,200 to 1,300 metric tonnes (MT) of waste is generated daily in Pimpri Chinchwad. Food and garden waste are the highest contributors to the city’s waste at 38%, followed by plastic waste at 35% in the last financial year.
Civic officials said challans were issued against 626 people in 2022-23, and a fine of Rs31.7 lakh was recovered. In 2023-24, a total of 283 people faced action, and a fine of Rs14.
4 lakh was recovered. A senior PCMC official said that increasing population and expansion of industries in Pimpri Chinchwad are some of the reasons for increased usage of plastic. “Since Pimpri Chinchwad is an industrial city, there are many industrial units operating from here that use plastic as a packaging material.
The changing lifestyle of people, like ordering food online or online shopping, is also adding to the problem,” Sanjay Kulkarni, PCMC’s environment department head, told TOI. “Nowadays, almost everyone uses single-use plastic, and the civic body does not conduct drives against plastic use,” Prashant Raul of Green Army said. We also published the following articles recently Plastic waste doubled in five years in Pimpri Chinchwad: Civic body In Pimpri Chinchwad, th.