noida the uttar pradesh pollution control board uppcb has slapped notices on two plastic packaging companies in greater noida for dumping garbage in the green belts of ecotech 1 and also burning them violating garbage disposal laid down by the state on monday a citybased environmentalist ramveer tanwar had tweeted photos of heaps of garbage occupying the green areas uppcb took note of this and other tweets by environmentalists who had launched a protest on this civic issue on the microblogging sitethe board sent a team to investigate the area and a complaint was sent to the greater noida industrial development authority on tuesday the piledup waste was removed by gnidawe received the complaints and ran a check of the area after looking through the garbage we could identify the companies which were discarding their waste in this area so we ran enquiries and learned that they habitually sell their garbage to vendors who then pick and choose what they want and discard the rest in these areas said archana dwivedi regional officer uppcb greater noidaaccording to tanwar both garbage dumping and garbage burning is a problem in ecotech i as there is no system in place for the companies to properly discard their garbage they often sell them off and then these get dumped by the garbage dealers there is a need for this to be streamlined tanwar addedwe have received complaints regarding dumping of garbage in these sectors and we will be keeping close vigil industries should be responsible to see that they dispose of their waste products properly dwivedi saidthe problem of greater noidas industrial sector is that they do not have designated land for garbage disposal the gnida is not responsible for their garbage collection and so dont provide services to pick up trash said utsav sharma regional officer uppcb ghaziabad who was formerly posted in greater noidaapart from the issue of industrial garbage management the regional office of uppcb greater noida informed that they have started heavy distribution of notices to builders with large real estate development projects to install antismog gins by october the pollution control board officials had said the order is a part of the preventive measures being taken to curb the winter pollution in ncr that starts from octoberno construction activity at large sites will be allowed without antismog guns from october as per specifications of the ministry of environment and forest dwivedi said