After lot of insistence from couple of my friends, I am posting my experience during Ganapati Visarjan.
Can you imagine how much of non- biodegradable waste we generate especially during the festivals?
We a bunch of young group of around 10 people in the age group of 16-26 volunteered during the Ganesh festival to segregate the bio degradable waste from the plastic bags. Dnyana Prabhodini, an NGO, gave us an opportunity to volunteer for this work. Since the group was small we volunteered at MIDC (Dombivli) on the 2nd day and on the Gauri visarjan day. A small group among us also volunteered at Thakurli on the day of Gauri Visarjan.
Our task was to segregate the the plastic bags from the biodegradable waste. Biodegradeable waste can be used for the production of fertilizers. However with the presence of plastic bags, the production of fertilizers is not possible. The work performed on these 2 days helped us collect an astonishing 84kgs of plastic bags at these places of Ganesh Idol immersion.
Just imagine if the plastic bags collected on 2 days at couple of places is such a big number, what would be the plastic non-biodegradable waste that we will be generating all over the country. We should minimize the use of plastic bags or take efforts to segregate the degradable and the bio- degradable waste. If more people volunteer we can execute this job at different places rather than restricting this job to a particular place.
It is worth noting that if such small issues are not addressed at this point it will be very difficult to control it at a later stage.
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Great Work
Indeed gr8 work sir!also forgot 2tel u about the station cleaning our church took at kalyan& kurla stations on Oct.2.bt i couldnt make it on that day!The irony is we had placed a hoarding @mumbra station saying 'do not spit.keep mumbai clean' and people wer courteous enuf to spit jst below the hoarding it seems!
Sir I always say-
"If there are even 100 Hariharan Sir in the world (with a population of 6790 million), this world would become a better place to live in."
And its shameful how we people still don't seem to care about the harm that is being caused to the environment.... I think the only way to make them follow rules is by threatening them. Because its human nature to underestimate everything said in simple words and politely!
@sheril Its pathetic! I wish people were more serious about that!
Till now its only that i read in newspapers about these fantabulous tell tales . .
Proud to have a living example sir !
Great work
I too dearly hope to contribute to the betterment of the society in every way possible. . however small it may seem !
Till now its only that i read in newspapers about these fantabulous tell tales . .
Proud to have a living example sir !
Great work
I too dearly hope to contribute to the betterment of the society in every way possible. . however small it may seem !
@Prasad dada Thx a lot. U r inspirational
@Sheril Good to see u guys bringing about a positive change in the society
@ Nitin Thx a lot of appreciating. I feel being educated is a big responsibility
thank you sir!!sad that i couldn't join them!!but as disha says its high time that we take things seriously!
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