Plastic carry bag makers warned GMC

Guntur: GMC Public Health Officer Sobha Rani urged the people not to use carry bags having less than fifty microns thickness. She conducted a meeting with the plastic carry bag manufacturers in the GMC Council Hall on Saturday.

Speaking on this occasion, she said that the government banned use of plastic carry bags having less than fifty microns thickness and urged the manufacturers not to manufacture carry bags having less than fifty microns and not to sell in the market.

She warned that if the GMC will seize the less than fifty microns thickness carry bags, it will impose a penalty of Rs 5,000 and file a case. She suggested people to use cloth bags and paper bags instead of plastic carry bags to save the environment. GMC environment engineer Ravindra Naik, official Anand Kumar were among those present.