TUTICORIN: The
Tuticorin Corporation has built a
bathroom with 1,700 recycled plastic water bottles for its sanitary workers at Perumalpuram micro compost centre in the city. The bottles were collected from three Covid-19
quarantine centres.
“Bottles of uniform shape and size were segregated from the pile of empty bottles. They were properly washed and disinfected before we filled them with sand from seashore to use them for constructing a bathroom,” corporation commissioner V P Jayaseelan said.
Five sanitary workers filled the bottles with sand and closed the lids with adhesives to avoid spilling. Construction of the structure began three weeks ago.
“The cost involved is also less than half of what it would have cost to build the same with bricks,” sanitary officer for corporation’s west zone G Stalin Packianathan said.
A brick structure would have cost Rs 1 lakh but the bottle bathroom has cost only around Rs 40,000. The structure awaits painting and flooring work before it can be opened for use.
Calling it a pilot project, corporation officials said they would check for its stability with experts and take a call on establishing more such structures.
The west zone has also channelized collection of
plastic bottles from hotels in the area to prevent them from clogging storm water drains or getting piled up at dump yards. As many as 8,000 bottles have been collected and are ready to be put to use for construction.