Shimla, April 27 -- Leading the way to promote recycling and sustainability, a remote village panchayat --- Gram panchayat Paudiya in Chopal, in span of six months, has constructed two parks --- Swami Vivekananda Panchvati Plastic Waste Park by using recyclable materials such as old tyres and plastic.

"Two plastic waste parks have been constructed in Chopal in just 6 months. Chopal has become the only block in Himachal Pradesh to build a park from plastic waste", said Additional Deputy Commissioner Shimla Abhishek Verma, who had inaugurated the second park.

Verma said, "Paudiya is a very remote Panchayat of Chopal area where the park has been constructed in just 21 days and about six quintals of plastic waste has been used in it."

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