Have you ever heard of giving away plastic in exchange for food? You may do that in this cafe, where you can pay for some delicious food using plastic waste. Yes, this cafe in Gujarat will do so.
As more small and medium-sized companies take steps to decrease plastic waste, one Gujarat cafe’s effort stands out from the rest.
Free Food In Exchange Of Plastic Waste!
The food will be supplied based on the plastic waste that customers bring in. One kg of plastic waste will provide one plate of poha. The best aspect about this eco-friendly cafe is that all of the food’s ingredients are derived from local farms. Furthermore, the café will be maintained by Sarvoday Sakhi Mandal, a women-led organization that has partnered with farmers to create this space.
Traditional Gujarati meals such as bengan bharta, sev tameta (a dish consisting of sev and tomatoes), and thepla are on the cafe’s menu.
The restaurant’s beverages will be nutritional, prepared from betel leaf, rose, figs, and bel leaf, and served with clay utensils.
Here Is How You Can Get Free Food In Return To Plastic Waste
Diners will be required to bring in plastic waste from their households and will be offered food based on the weight of the plastic. The café’s waste will be delivered to a recycling business that works with the Junagadh administration.
The district administration has given the infrastructure, but the café will be owned and run by a group of women from the Sarvoday Sakhi Mandal, who have paid Rs 50,000 to the café’s establishment.
Junagadh collector Rachit Raj said to TOI, “We want to promote clean and green Junagadh. To start with, we will give a glass of lemon juice or fennel juice for 500 grams of plastic waste and one plate of dhokla or poha for 1 kg of plastic waste. More the plastic waste, the bigger the platter.”
Ban On Plastic
India generates 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, according to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, who inaugurated numerous green initiatives for plastic waste management on Tuesday.
Starting July 1, the manufacturing, importation, storage, distribution, sale, and use of some single-use plastic goods with limited use and a high potential for littering is prohibited.
Plastics harm both marine and terrestrial life. The prohibition of single-use plastic is a vital step in ensuring our planet’s long-term survival. If we do not take action as quickly as possible, future generations will suffer even more than we do now.
To help make our world, our home, a better place, we must all avoid using single-use plastic and seek out alternatives as much as possible. Waste reduction will eventually lead to healthier living and a better world.
Additionally, the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change has produced Guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). These regulations apply to the plastic used to package FMCG items. According to the recommendations, the manufacturers’ primary job would be to guarantee that the damage caused by their plastic consumption is properly controlled.
While states and union territories have set up checkpoints to guarantee that no banned single-use plastic items enter or exit their jurisdictions, they are also adopting other methods to verify that the ban is implemented appropriately in their governed regions.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has established a grievance redressal cell to assist individuals in reducing their usage of single-use plastic.
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