Responsibilities of a Citizen for a clean India.

Here are a few healthy suggestions. Please do follow or pass it to the concerned authority which/ who could really make it happen.

1. There should be a rule for every street food vendor as well as shopkeepers keeping food items. There must be a dustbin in front of their vending area else their license should be canceled or a fine amount shall be charged by the municipality.

2. The dustbins and their color codes are mostly unknown to common people. So it is needed to be written over the bin, the type of waste to dispose of it.

As per the pollution board of India, there are certain color codes and they are as follows:

Green Bin: The green colored bin is used to dump biodegradable waste. This bin could be used to dispose off wet/organic material including cooked food/leftover food, vegetable/fruit peels, eggshell, rotten eggs, chicken/fish bones, tea bags/coffee grinds, coconut shells and garden waste including fallen leaves/twigs or the puja flowers/garlands will all go into the green bin.

Blue bin: The blue colored bin is used for segregating dry or recyclable left over. This category includes waste like plastic covers, bottles, boxes, cups, toffee wrappers, soap or chocolate wrapper and paper waste including magazines, newspapers, tetra packs, cardboard cartons, pizza boxes or paper cups/plates will have to be thrown into the white bin. Metallic items like tins/ can foil paper and containers and even the dry waste including cosmetics, hair, rubber/thermocol/polystyrene), old mops/dusters/sponges.

Black bin: Black bin, make up for the third category, which is used for domestic hazardous waste like sanitary napkins, diapers, blades, bandages, CFL, tube light, printer cartridges, broken thermometer, batteries, button cells, expired medicine etc.

3. The gutkha and cigarette vending zones must have dustbins and should insist consumers to use them.

4. Apartments and flats are better in waste management but they put all the wastes outside their premises. Each apartment must have common large bins which should be emptied by Municipal waste carrying trucks daily or time to time.

5. The other localities with single or independent houses must know the benefits of waste management and awareness campaigns must be held by govt. time to time to encourage the use of bins and proper disposal.

6. We must know the difference between different types of wastes and how to use them. Wet and degradable trash like vegetable wastes, waste food materials etc.can be dug in a pothole to make manure. Proper procedure must be made aware to all the citizens so that they could get benefits.

7. Recycle, reuse and replenish. Innovative waste management plans like reusing shredded plastics to make roads, bottles to make the overhead canopy for pedestrian etc. can be implemented in the localities.

8. Each block or locality should have a waste management team, which will encourage the whole locality to apply these rules by awarding and awarding the localities.


Few more suggestions for every individual

1. Install 2 dustbins in your home. One for organic wastes and the other for inorganic waste.

2. Make a small garden on your terrace, balcony, side skirts of your house and use the organic wastes as a manure there.

3. Use less papers, use the word, excel, PowerPoint, sticky notes etc.as replacements.

4. Drive less and when needed in your gasoline or diesel vehicles. Use cycles or electric bikes and for distance in between, 1 to 2 km go for a walk. Walk to get your grocery, walk to get your stationeries.

5. Don't spit outside in a plane area, spit near the shoots n roots of a tree. Chewing tobacco is bad and will harm you personally but spitting it anywhere will harm the environment and other people too. Mostly people who can't get their ass up to find a place to throw tobacco, spoit it at corners of public bulidings and heritages which is a crime too. Be careful with that.

6. Take cloth bags or cotton fiber bags to get your groceries and avoid plastic bags as much as you can.

7. Dispose of plastics to dustbins only. If you don't find one, hold it until you find one. Check whether the dustbin where you are disposing the plastic is the right one. You can do that by checking its color codes.

8. Don't defecate in open areas, use a toilet. In cities, there are numerous defecating centers placed by Govts. Use them. Find the nearest public toilets in google maps with your smartphones and do make it a habit when you visit some other place.

9. If you are going for any construction work, then disperse the sands and gravels in a bounded area. Cover the area with jute sacks so that the dust can't get mixed up with the surrounding air. If possible make the sacks wet by sprinkling water on them that will keep the sack intact and no specks of dust will be out.

10. Reduce using high decibel modified silencers, people around get irritated not fascinated. If you really want to show your presence then use stock silencers under the restricted decibel. 80 decibel is the maximum noise limit for motorcycles and scooters but modified silencers go up to 130, so please check it.

11. Do pollution check of your vehicles from time to time. If you find any black or grey emission of smoke please take it to a garage for repair.

I would request the Municipal corps., environmentalists and other eminent person related to taking strict actions because of its the need of the hour.

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