842,000

SAVE SOUTHERN AVENUE 2009
82,000 grams
+ 137,000 grams
+ 506,000 grams
+ 117,000 grams
Of wine bottles, hair combs, ice cream wrappers, gutka pouches, cigarette packets, plastic bags, trouser belts, toothbrushes, ID cards, condoms, sanitary pads, shirts, medicine bottles, toothpaste tubes, cigarettes, bus tickets, polyurethane strips, spoons, shoe soles, running shoes, cement bags, purses, ice cream cups, bidi pouches etc.



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Ok, so this was our first Sunday of a decline in collections.

Not unexpected. Most students, who had turned up at six am over the last three Sundays, decided to stay home to study this time round. The surprise is not that 20-25 students did not turn up; the surprise is that around eight did.

So what we collected (117,000 grams) on Sunday 4 (1 March 2009) in our Save Southern Avenue Project 2009 was encouraging. Taking our total to 842,000 grams across four collections days.

The team of young adults (6-16 years) comprised local residents. A mention must also be made of adult residents who donated specially manufactured jute bags to collect waste and others who contributed gloves.

The young adult team resumed its cleaning exercise at 6:00 and worked until 8 across the Menoka Cinema stretch on Sarat Chatterjee Avenue . Thereafter, the waste was weighed and disposed under supervised guidance in the plastic segment of the waste vat on Southern Avenue .

“We intend to have a larger turnout next Sunday as some students are likely to join in with their exams getting over,” says Arman Sood. “”Our target is to cross a tonne of collected waste next Sunday.”

The team of green crusaders intends to repeat this exercise at 600 am on Sunday, 8 March 2009.

Can you join?

Or do you know any young adult in your house, building or neighbourhood who would be interested to help?

Please ask her / him to contact Armaan Sood at 98304 33663.

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