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Thoubal, Nov.26
For the first time in the history of Manipur, a public urinal was constructed using waste plastic bottle filled by plastic waste package product like Talab, Sampoo among others, was inaugurated today at Wangjing Heituppokpi in Thoubal district.
All credit goes to Likmabam Binodkumar (age 41) son of Damu, a resident of Wangjing Heituppokpi, as he is the person who collected waste plastic bottles and other plastic waste and filled it in the bottle for making it as construction material.
Narengbam Rajivkumar, who is the president of “Go Clean” Wangjing inaugurated the public urinal built by using plastic waste as construction material.
“I was inspired after coming across people in some country using waste plastic bottles as construction material by filling it with sand”, Likmabam Binodkumar, who is also an entrepreneur, said while talking to reporters during the inauguration function.
“I was always concern about the waste plastic of package edible and other household chores like Talab , Samppoo . etc that are polluting the earth”, Likmabam Binodkumar said and added that finally he decided to collect the plastic waste and filled it in waste bottles for using it as construction materials,
A waste plastic filled plastic bottle weighs around 250 gm to 350 gm. A total of 976 such bottled were used in constructing the 5 ft 8 inches tall toilet.