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PATNA: The Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) has roped in school and college students to remove plastic waste from eight Ganga ghats in the city in the run up to the World Environment Day on June 5. “We are working on building a cottage out of plastic where the bricks are pet bottles filled with plastic wrappers” Tarumitra campaign coordinator Devopriya Dutta said. Students from senior classes cleaned Pipapul ghat from 7.30am to 10am. The students will be awarded a ‘certificate of participation’ by BSPCB and the ministry of environment and forests on the final day of the programme on June 5.Altogether 250 students of Army Public School participated in the plastic cleaning mission on the second day of the drive on Friday. Students, who were provided gloves and t-shirts by the BSPCB, picked up plastic waste from the ghats, which were then loaded on the dumpers provided by the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC).“We have roped in schoolchildren for the job as they are more receptive towards behavioural change that is necessary to eliminate the use of plastic,” BSPCB chairman Ashok Kumar Ghosh said.Tarumitra, Patna, has been running a similar initiative where volunteers are motivated to create something useful out of plastic waste..