Madras High Court Premises To Be Made Plastic Free From November 10

The Madras High Court premises will soon become a plastic free zone. Additional Advocate General J Ravindran informed the bench of Justice N Sathish Kumar and Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy that five "manjappai" (yellow cotton bag) vending machines would be installed in the campus. Apart from the Madras campus, the Madurai campus will also be made plastic free.

The bench was dealing with matters regarding protection of western ghats area and hearing issues regarding curbing the use of plastic in Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal and to prevent the entry of plastic into these areas.

Ravindran informed the court that the Acting Chief Justice T Raja was set to inaugurate these vending machines on November 10 along with a plastic bottle crushing unit.

The decision to make the high court campus plastic free was made following a series of orders by the bench of Justice S Vaidyanathan and Justice PT Asha, which was dealing with matters of complete plastic ban in Tamil Nadu, he had followed up with the Environment Secretary Supriya Sahu.

The Meendum Manjappai campaign is a flagship programme of the State government launched by Chief Minister MK Stalin in December last year, to raise awareness among the public to eliminate the use of banned single-use plastics and revive the use of traditional eco-friendly alternatives.

Under this campaign "manjappai" or yellow cotton cloth bag vending machines were introduced to make these easily available to the public.