How might we eliminate single-use plastic from a district of towns, estates and ten million tourist footfalls a year?
Cloth-bag libraries at checkposts? Refill stations in Ooty and Coonoor? A deposit on every bottle that enters the hills?
The hills should not carry what the hills did not grow. A refill sanctuary at every entry, no plastic past the gate.
Preethi · Xin CoonoorQR-coded refill stations at every checkpost. Every bottle scanned, every kilogram tracked, all data public. Transparency shames plastic out.
Karthik · Xin CoonoorA returnable cloth bag at every checkpost. Old cotton saris, stitched by the church women's group. The hills carry what the hills know.
Anitha · Xin Coonoor