Garbage poses threat to trains, warn railways
The railways has warned that garbage accumulation at a rail switch poses serious threat to train, with the potential to derail trains.
With express trains sometimes changing tracks at high speed, there is the possibility of plastic waste jamming a switch and sending a train hurtling off the tracks, railways officials said.
Garbage at switch points poses a major problem for railway station staff as they are forced to remove plastic bottles near switches before throwing a switch to guide a train onto another track.
Each passenger dumps and average of 9 gm of plastic waste at railway stations everyday as most food and water sold in disposable packets, according to a recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi.
Garbage overflow in localities of Delhi
Source: The Times of India
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