Encouraged by the success of a pilot project taken up in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR), the Forest department is initiating measures to make forests, protected areas and urban parks completely plastic-free.
PCCF (Head of Forest Force) R.M. Dobriyal has issued directions towards the same, and asked officials to regulate the use of plastic in the two tiger reserves, three national parks, four sanctuaries, 109 urban forest parks and the zoo park.
Forest areas are filled with large amounts of plastic waste owing to the garbage dumped by people from surrounding villages and tourists and travellers on highways, putting wildlife at peril and causing fire accidents.
