KSPCB seeks SOP for safe disposal of cigarette, bidi butts
The HinduKarnataka State Pollution Control Board has urged the Tobacco Control Cell and Department of Health and Family Welfare to set up a committee to assist the Directorate of Municipal Administration in formulating a Standard Operating Procedure for safe and scientific disposal of cigarette and bidi butts. The meeting was held in the wake of the Central Pollution Control Board coming up with guidelines for disposal of cigarette and bidi butts. Representatives of the Tobacco Control Cell pointed out that their squads book cases for violation of the ban on smoking in public, but cigarette and bidi butts are discarded near bakeries, restaurants, and petty shops. Mr Girish emphasised the need for the Cell, along with State and Central Pollution Control Board, to write to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, government of India, to direct the manufacturers of bidi and cigarette to print instructions for disposal of butts on the packets.
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