udhagamandalam in a first municipal officials including the commissioner and the municipal engineer held street meetings in ooty town on tuesday to create awareness among owners of commercial establishments about plastic waste and segregation of waste ooty municipality will collect dry garbage from commercial establishments on their doorstep every wednesday starting from june 21 the meetings held in four places on tuesday will continue in other places in the coming days according to the municipal officialsafter the tourist season garbage has become a menace in this small town considering the amount of garbage thrown everywhere we have decided to start a campaign in every street dr v prabhakaran ooty municipal health officer and commissioner incharge told toion tuesday the street meetings were held at garden road charring cross junction ootykotagiri road and commercial roadcommercial establishments were asked to segregate plastic and other dry wastes these would be collected on the doorstep of every commercial establishment every wednesday our people will start going to each street for collecting dry solid wastes such as plastics and other wastes from commercial establishments said prabhakaranwhile speaking at the street meeting he told shopkeepers that a fine would be imposed if proper segregation was not done at their end and garbage was not handed over to the municipal staff if the shopkeepers continue with their lethargic attitude their licences will be cancelled he addedshobana chandrashekar founder make ooty beautiful mob said it is a welcome sign municipal officials taking such a good initiative is highly appreciable enforcing rules strictly will certainly help keep the hill town presentableaccording to prabhakaran the town generates approximately 38 tonnes of garbage every day the ooty market and uzhavar sandai alone contribute around 15 tonnes of vegetable wastewhile plastic waste is sent for shredding other dry waste are sold to private players from the plains the vegetable waste is sent to the biomethane gas plantthe response from the shopkeepers is encouraging we will also cover other establishments in our street meetings within a week said prabhakaran