LAST week Khuzdar`s roads and streets were covered with heaps of plastic bags and all other garbage, when municipal sweepers went on strike.
Ittakes ahundredyearsfora single plastic bag to decompose naturally, and if burned, they release harmful toxic smoke which causes various lung diseases.
Recently, the Sindh government imposed a ban on the dumping of household, industrial and hospital waste in the open, and the Karachi police have started taking action against those throwing garbage.
The Balochistan government should also impose a ban on dumping of garbage at public places and introduce bio-degradable plastic in the province.
Khuzdar, with a population of 270,000, can be easily administered and made an example as the first-ever `green city`, with zero plastic pollution, in Pakistan.
