Plastic is the new cash! This restaurant accepts garbage as payment for food!

Ambikapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) in Chhattisgarh has come up with a unique way to solve the city's plastic management issues, reports NDTV.

AMC is all set to open a "Garbage Cafe" where rag pickers and poor people can exchange plastic waste for food. One KG garbage gets one free food while half KG gets one breakfast.

"The solid waste management of the Ambikapur Municipal Corporation was successful. We have come up with a new provision that if someone brings one kilogram of plastic, he or she will get food for free and on half kilogram of plastic, they will get breakfast free. We have named this 'Garbage Cafe'," said the city's mayor.

However, opposition claims that the city is already clean and the poor won't get plastic anywhere. And also that rice is available in Rs. 1 while one KG plastic gives Rs. 20 so the initiative will fail.