It is observed that when a feast or a festival, where a fair comes up is over, huge mounds of waste, more particularly plastic waste is left behind. As a result, besides presenting an ugly sight, it is the locals who have to suffer. This is the case at the Old Goa feast, the Vasco Saptah, the Margao feast or for that matter any festival which attracts a fair. The authorities concerned need to come with a lasting solution to this waxing problem. One way of tackling this issue is to make it mandatory for every stall that comes up at a fair to install a garbage bin. The civic body or the village panchayat could arrange to provide these bins on rental basis, which are returnable, to the stall owners at the time of issuing the necessary license for setting up the stall. The stall owner should be penalized if waste is seen anywhere near the stall. The waste from these bins needs to be collected by the garbage truck every morning for which a fixed fee should be imposed on the stall owners.
