SAVE SOUTHERN AVENUE 2009
82,000 grams
Of wine bottles, hair combs, ice cream wrappers, gutka pouches, cigarette packets, plastic bags, trouser belts, toothbrushes, ID cards, condoms, sanitary napkins, shirts, medicine bottles, toothpaste tubes, polyurethane strips, spoons, shoe soles, purses, ice cream cups, bidi pouches etc.
This is the quantity and quality of plastic-paper garbage that was collected by a mere 20 kids of Southern Avenue in the park skirting the Dhakuria Lakes on on Day 1 of their Save Southern avenue Project 2009 (8 February). The team comprised resident young adults (6-16 years).
The young adult team was spread across five teams delegated across various parts of the park. Armed with gloves and jute sacks The team team started at 6:30 and worked until 8 am. Thereafter, the waste was disposed under supervised guidance in the plastic segment of the waste vat on Southern Avenue.
The team of green crusaders intends to repeat this exercise at 630 am on Sunday, 15 February 2009.
Do you know any young adult in your house, building or neighbourhood who would be interested to join?
Please ask her / him to contact Armaan Sood at 98304 33663.
Let us be a part of our neighbourhood’s solution!
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Look at the variety of stuff we picked up....atleast there's a check on the population....seeing the number of condoms we found....on a more serious note we need help from the youngsters around us and at the end of the day one must understand that what we are cleaning up is our own mess because all of us have sometime or the other littered the streets of Kolkata....
ReplyDeleteI think its an amazing idea....it feels great to know that the initiative is coming from children as young as 6 years.......thumbs up
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