The Greater Chennai Corporation on Monday launched a drive to prevent plastic pollution, seized huge quantities of plastics from commercial establishments and collected fines from violators.
Meanwhile, civic officials attended a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament in Delhi on Monday in the backdrop of the audit report Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in 2022 pointing out pollution caused by plastics in Chennai.
In the report, the CAG observed that a Joint Committee was constituted by the National Green Tribunal vide its order of June 16, 2021 to inspect the presence of microplastics in wells near the dumpsites in Chennai. Various research studies confirmed the presence of microplastics in groundwater in Chennai.
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