Kancheepuram, Oct 20: In an effort to bring health and development to rural areas, the Kancheepuram district administration has evolved a novel scheme of laying recycled plastic mixed roads in its panchayat areas. A one-km road has been laid at Kattavakkam to Chettiyarpet on the grand west trunk road connecting the two rural areas. A ten per cent saving was effected on this by mixing the plastic waste.

Health and clean environment for panchayats also envisages pollution free environment and effective eco-friendly waste management, the district collector told reporters here today.

Such methods not only in help in better sanitation and prevention of diseases but also help keep the air clean as waste is otherwise being burnt up leading to spread of lung diseases, he said. Segregated plastic waste, recycled and added to the tar and this road is least vulnerable to rain's battering and erosions.

A total of 19 km of link roads are planned to be laid in panchayats this year, collector Venkatesan said.

Bureau Report