*From:* Grassroots India Trust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:12 PM *Subject:* [GRASSROOTS-in-action] Plastic problem
From: Jinoy Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Aug 1, 2007 12:33 PM Subject: Plastic problem To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is for a village which is really helpless in fighting a plastic sak manufacturing company. Will you please try to do what you can to help out the villagers and find out the gravity of the problem? This is about a 4 crore plastic bag company being set up in a village in Thrissur, Kerala . According an RTI filed by the villagers with the district pollution board, the company will produce 30 thousand plastic bags (sacks) a day using 5 tonne plastic. 100 people will be employed under 3 shifts. Granules will be used to make the bags and 8000 litre water will be needed daily and the data given by the board says 10 per cent of waste will be generated and it doesnt say where will this waste go. The company is called Thomson Industries Ltd Address: Thazhekkadu Post, Thrissur District Kerala-680697 The company is just 250 metres away close to a cluster of houses in Thazhekkadu village and a long irrigation canal separates the houses and the company. Villagers say the company will flow the waste into this canal and will pollute the ground water and soil. The area falls within Aloor panchayat (CPI-M), under Mukundapuram taluka in Thrissur district. The new factory is coming on a thickly populated area, and another paint-chemical firm has been functioning close to the area for the last 20 years, polluting the environment and contributing diseases like Asthma to the villagers The current unit is owned by a local business group who are also one among the biggest poultry businesses in south India. Now the villagers have formed an action council and asked the company to reveal the cause. A few villagers had given signatures of consent to the company who in fact hoodwinked them by saying that the unit would be a sack stitching unit, not a production centre. The villagers are a bit anxious over the project especially since they are being discouraged by the local authorities and some of the CPI-M workers. But the village action council has a mix of people from all the parties. Their concerns are: Will polypropylene granules harm nature /people if compressed under 300 degree Celsius or above? Will any toxic gases come out? Will the company affect groundwater resources? How all these , if so, can be checked? They have not yet got any expert help. Nor any activists visited the area. Please help them. Contacts: Mahesh-local activist-09995322707 ** *Aloor Panchyat-0480-2720242* *District Industry Centre-0487-2360847* *Kerala State Pollution Control board Thrissur -0487- 2380689* -- ==================================== GRASSROOTS INDIA TRUST 1st Floor, Rail Reservation Building, 50 A, Street 17, Zakir Nagar, Opp. New Friends Colony A-Block, Okhla, New Delhi - 110 025 India Tel: 011-26983449, 26955452, 09868466401 Fax: +91-11-26936366 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.grassrootsglobal.net Main Contact: Hasrat Arjjumend, Executive Director ........................................................... Grassroots India Trust is committed to reduce hunger and poverty through empowering the local communities and enhancing capacities of grassroots. ------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/931 - Release Date: 8/1/2007 4:53 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
