India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
New Delhi, July 03: Several plush malls and hotels in south Delhi were on Saturday declared “single-use plastic free” as part of the area’s civic body’s efforts to curb use of such items, officials said.
These include City mall, DLF Avenue, MGF, Ambience, ITC Sheraton, and Hyatt – in Saket; and DLF Promenade, the Grand hotel and DLF Emporio – in Vasant Kunj; and Eros hotel in Nehru Place, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) said in a statement.
In a meeting on Friday, the SDMC decided to declare 20 markets in its jurisdiction as “single use plastic free”. On the occasion of International Plastic Bag Free Day on Saturday, the SDMC organised various programmes and intensive drives against single-use plastic in all its four municipal zones.
Various RWAs of south zone handed over nearly…