Are you an environment conscious consumer, shopkeeper or manager of retail stores looking for alternatives for plastic carry bags? The place to be is the Coimbatore Corporation’s Kalaiarangam in R.S. Puram.
The corporation has organised the ‘My Shopping My Bag’ exhibition providing a platform for entrepreneurs who manufacture cloth bags, areca leaf bags, coir pith products and much more. There are also few organisations that have displayed products produced by differently abled children, elders and self help groups.
Inaugurating the exhibition, Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan said that it had organised the exhibition to provide alternatives to people and traders at a time when it was implementing the ban on plastic bags less than 50 micron.
The plastic bags ended up on roads, bins, water bodies and drains polluting the environment and complicating waste segregation efforts. The idea was not just to enforce the ban but provide alternatives to people.
The exhibition has entrepreneurs from Bengaluru who manufacture plastic-like carry bags but ones made of corn starch, from Mumbai who manufacture areca leaf products and from Coimbatore district. It also has women Swachh Bharat ambassadors who use surplus fabrics from tailors to manufacture cloth bags and senior citizens who produce paper bags. The exhibition is open till Sunday evening.
