The Anantapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) has collected ₹80,000, as against ₹12,000 that it had collected in three years before drive began, as a penalty from wholesalers, vendors, food stall owners for using single-use plastic as packaging material or for serving food, in 11 days of its campaign.
Municipal Corporation Public Health Officer and in charge of sanitation in the city Sangam Srinivas told The Hindu that there were 9,000 commercial establishments registered with the AMC and all of them were found to be using this type of plastic.
“We have targeted the wholesale dealers, 26 in number, who mainly procure this kind of material from the manufacturers and supply to the users locally,” Mr. Srinivas added.
