India soon to offer food in exchange of trash

India is one of the leading countries fighting against plastic waste; and now India will soon have its very first garbage Cafe’ with an aim to provide food in exchange for trash. Discussions on climate changes and environmental damages through plastic are gaining momentum with each passing day. People from various cities are coming-up with their own innovative ways to fight air pollution and plastic pollution across the globe.

According to reports, India is set to open a Garbage cafe in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur. The makeshift cafe, which has been made in a converted bus shelter, will be serving full meal on exchange of plastic trash. Those who manage to get 500 gms of waste can get a free breakfast.

Asian country like Philippines is fighting both, poverty and plastic by handing out one kilogram of rice for every two kilograms of plastic waste. In a country where one out of every five individuals is living below the poverty line, the move is expected to have two basic results by giving incentives to local people for collecting plastic waste. Thanks to the enforcement of the scheme, about 213 kilograms of plastic has already been sent to recycling.

In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged that the country will be free of single-use plastics by 2022. He has even asked other countries to be a part of India’s fight against plastic pollution. While India gears up for Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, a ban on single-use plastics is widely anticipated on and before 2nd October 2019. India’s Central Pollution Control Board has already released a list of items that are proposed to be banned under single-use plastics. The list includes thin plastic bags, straws, cups and other utensils. Several other countries including China, Kenya and Morocco among others have already implemented a ban on thin plastic bags.