Besides the thrash that is produced in homes, it must be said that a considerable amount of thrash is also produced in moving vehicles. Hence proper disposal of thrash produced in vehicles assumes significance. Commuters in buses, specially, those on long-distance routes and inter-state buses, consume eatables from plastic packets and drinks from tetra-packs and plastic bottles as also mineral water from plastic bottles.
Bus commuters could find that the easiest way to get rid of the thrash is to just throw it out through the window of the moving vehicle. This adds to the garbage woes as the roadside gets littered with thrash.
In the absence of thrash bins in the buses, the commuters may have no option but to throw the thrash out through the window of the moving vehicle. It seems necessary to make it mandatory to provide thrash bins in private buses as well as the buses of the state owned KTC where the commuters can deposit the thrash. In other states cars too have car thrash bins installed in the vehicles. This concept needs to be introduced in cars in Goa as well. This will be a positive step towards making our state garbage free.
ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
