Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation and Green Vigil Foundation celebrated World Environment Day by conducting public awareness campaigns at World Trade Centre, Sitabuldi and Sitabuldi Market on this year’s theme – Beat Plastic Pollution.

During the campaign, members of Green Vigil Foundation & NMC Team interacted with citizens , shopkeepers, street vendors on ill effects of usage of single use plastic, eradication of single use plastic, adopting circular economy, urgency of adopting green living practices & environment friendly lifestyles. The message was also conveyed by various posters and placards focusing on phasing out of single use plastic and adopting sustainable options with change in lifestyles and habits.

Surbhi Jaiswal, Team Lead, Green Vigil explained, plastic is non bio degradable, hence , remains in nature for years, plastic carry bags are choking our sewerage system, rivers and oceans are polluted with huge deposition of microplastic, leaving waste food in plastic carry bags are causing death to cattle.

Prominently present during the campaign were Rajesh Bhagat , Deputy Commissioner , NMC, Dr. Ganjendra Mahalle, Chief Sanitary Officer, NMC, Manish Soni, PRO NMC, Dhananjay Jadhav, Asst. Commissioner, NMC, Anup Khandelwal, Vilas Uttarwar , Kisan Agarwal and others.

Kaustav Chatterjee, Surbhi Jaiswal, Mehul Kosurkar, Sheetal Choudhary, Bishnudeo Yadav, Shriya Jogey, Priya Yadav, Parth Jumde, Tushar Deshmukh, Pinaki Banik along with NMC & NDS Team worked hard for the success of the campaign.