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NADIA BUILDS A GREAT

GREEN WALL WITH

PLASTIC WASTE

I n an effort to address PWM, the Sreema At the outset, the women’s committee and

Samity
Mahila
(Sreema
Women’s
BPCL organized awareness generation
Committee) from Sreerampur village in
environmental harm caused by plastics.
Nadia District, West Bengal, undertook a programmes to educate people about the
remarkable initiative – the construction of a Participants were informed that SUPs are
green boundary wall made from discarded not only difficult and expensive to recycle
SUPs and other plastic waste. The five- but also end up in landfills where they take
foot-high and 80-metre-long wall was years to decompose. Moreover, research
constructed with the financial support has shown that plastics can break down into
of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil
(BPCL). and water bodies, and even enter the food
chain when animals and fish consume them.

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