The Government Arts College in Coimbatore is taking steps towards becoming a plastic-free campus. Recently, the college replaced plastic covers in project reports with paper wrappers. This initiative was taken by the Save Nature Cell of the college, which aims to eliminate single-use plastic products on the campus.

Assistant professor K Vasanthi, from the department of Economics, highlighted that all reports submitted by students contained plastic covers, including final year project reports and other assignments. Moreover, there was also plastic in the documents such as syllabus and curriculum given out by the college. In the past, students were required to bind their thesis and cover them with plastic wrappers. However, the recent initiative taken by the Save Nature Cell has eliminated the use of plastic wrappers and replaced them with paper.

Vasanthi stated that a total of 1,337 UG final-year project reports and 582 PG final-year project reports are submitted every year across all