“Kolkata should play its role in making this campaign 100 per cent success,” he said. That should be our resolve on the eve of World Environment Day on June 5,” WBPCB chairman Kalyan Rudra told reporters. But the government can empower urban local authorities to this effect. Single-use plastics are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled.Rudra said India has been chosen by the United Nations Environment Programme as a host for this year’s World Environment Day celebrations tomorrow, for taking constructive action against plastic pollution. Peta displays a ‘dead cow’ consume plastic waste,on the World Environment Day in front of Victoria Memorial on Monday.

He said the WBPCB will organise a number of functions on World Environment Day on Tuesday projecting this objective.Single-use plastics are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee) Kolkata: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) on Monday gave a call for shunning single-use plastics which triggers natural disasters such as flood and pollute the environment. Asked if imposing fine can improve the situation, Mr Rudra said, “The WBPCB can’t impose fines on its own.“We can’t go without plastics but we must stop dumping single-use plastic.

These items include plastic bags, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles and food packaging materials. We must refuse when vendors give us items in plastic packets which can’t be used twice. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ organised by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the National Small Industries Corporation Limited. “To stop single-use plastics, we need active participation of every China pallet mold Manufacturers citizen as this task cannot be solely accomplished by the government and the WBPCB,” Mr Rudra said.”