The country needs a recycling plant

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Dear Editor,

I am really concerned about the careless dumping of plastic bottles and utensils in this country. Despite the numerous campaigns and appeals nothing has curbed this new trend. I had wanted to engineer a clean up campaign for Carifesta, but decided not to do so because it would be a waste of time and resources.

I want to make a suggestion which could see this entire country become spotless and clean forever – even the bottle caps would be hard to find. The government which is collecting the environment tax should build a plastic recycling plant and repurchase the discarded bottles, etc. In this way no one would want to see any bottle thrown away. As for me it would certainly assist in purchasing gasoline for my vehicle……


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