Haritha Keralam Mission, which aims to promote environmental conservation, will soon make its presence felt in educational institutions in the district with a green protocol, leading to the step-by-step implementation of the ban on the use of plastics.
Aided and government schools will be brought under the green protocol. This will be monitored by a committee comprising local panchayat authorities and the District Suchitwa Mission.
Officials say the green protocol has been found very successful in various phases of its trial run across the State. It was in place during the Kerala State Youth Festival and district-level youth festivals.
Along with imposing a ban on bringing plastic products, schools will have a common facility to stock the plastic items and send it for timely recycling. The installation of Material Recovery Facilities is under the consideration of local bodies to support the implementation of green protocol.
District Suchitwa Mission officials say that the first Material Recovery Facility will come up in the limit of Kunnummal grama panchayat.
Segregated plastic items will be processed here and handed over to the large-scale plastic industries. Plastic trashes segregated from various households too will be accepted at this unit which is set up in a 2,000-sq.ft building.
To begin with, students have already been requested to avoid the use of plastic water bottles, lunch boxes and ball pens.