Myntra fined Rs 2 lakh for using plastic and not segregating garbage! Will Big Basket be next?

Myntra Designs in Kudlu was fined Rs 2 lakh by HSR Layout ward BBMP officials for non-segregation of waste and using banned plastic on December 2, 2019.

BBMP Commissioner BH Anil Kumar says, “The HSR sub-division imposed and collected the penalty. BBMP is urging establishments to segregate waste and stop using plastics that pollute.”

Amit Singh had his misgivings too: “When a company like Mantra doesn’t adhere to simple waste segregation requirements, then how can we trust them on adherence to complicated regulations around data privacy? I have serious doubts about their ethics.”

Shashank felt that the BBMP was being biased: “Wonder why you go into hiding when it comes to naming and shaming contractors doing shoddy and below par work? Convenient to blame firms not hand in glove, right?”

Naveen Patil felt that Rs 2 lakh was too less. “Add one zero or two zeros extra, it will show up in its bottom line profit and (they will) mend their ways of doing business.”

Is Big Basket next?
Residents like PV Balakrishna have asked the BBMP to raid the Big Basket office behind Marble Palace on Sarjapur Road. “They openly dump waste, and even BBMP contractors selectively pick from the trash, leaving the rest to rot and emit a stench making living in the neighborhood a miserable experience,” tweeted Balakrishna.

Many netizens asked about Amazon and Flipkart. Well, Flipkart was fined recently. Myntra followed. Perhaps, it’s Amazon next, if they are also caught violating the rules.

May this serve as a warning to all those big establishments as the law applies to everyone. For all those who don’t know, you cannot use banned plastic (google it to know more). In addition, you are to segregate the waste into three sections: kitchen or wet waste, dry waste and sanitary waste.

No black garbage bags, please?

Sanjay made a pertinent point to the commissioner about garbage contractors accepting black garbage bags. “I request BBMP not to pick garbage packed in the banned black plastic covers. Whoever uses it should only dispose it, which is seen in BBMP lorries and autos, mostly laid like a bedding, one over the other.”