The State government has put in extra efforts to avoid using plastics at the Global Investors Meet (GIM) 2019, which got off to a start at the Chennai Trade Centre.
The organisers packed snacks for delegates and industrialists in small potli bags and cardboard boxes. The plastic label wrapped around water bottles and juice bottles were also removed and replaced with a GIM 2019 sticker. Journalists got their snacks in jute bags.
A government official who was in-charge of this said huge quantities of plastics are collected at the end of such events and this year, the State consciously wanted to keep it a plastics-free meet.
“The entire work was outsourced,” he added.
Even the exhibition hall where over 250 stalls were set up by various companies had no plastics. At the TVS Dynamic Global Freight Services Limited stall, calenders were given to visitors in cloth bags. The Aachi Masala stall had the traditional manjai pai (yellow cloth bag) on display.