Waste Management

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.