Cleaning Plastic at Mattathi

After receiving few mails of confirmation from Wipro Cares regarding the Cleaning of Plastic from Cauvery Bank river along with Clean & Green Team.

It was very excited to take part in this Awareness program.

No soon the day to start out journey to Muthathi came, it was Saturday morning ( a joli day especially for a software employee ) clock stroked 6 'o' clock in the morning where our two chota tempo vans started from Sarjapur one in RED and other in GREEN colors picked up some volunteers on the way and moved to Banergatta where it stopped opposite to Shoppers stop to add on more volunteers and Cleaning equipment. I remember Preeti & Vijay taking the attendance of volunteers presence over there.
Then we started moving towards Kanakpura road adding more and more volunteers ended in Forty-Four in number.

Moved towards the Kanakapura village and had a stop there where we got a chance to put in Idlies in to our empty stomach.

That was the first time got a chance to see out Wipro Cares chief Sandhya Ranjit she's very simple that I can tell frankly, she poured some instructions about our garbage collection and precautions to take care individually. I also remember some volunteer clicking the snaps at the entire team with Idles in our hands.

After having enough break fast we started our way to destination, as soon as we reached there Clean & Green team over there asked us to divide in to teams of each team having Four members and one Kannadigan compulsory so that to instruct the visitors about the plastic harms.

In no time every body got involved in collecting the Plastic garbage over there.

It's not possible to describe the eve in words I think.....
44 Wipro employees instead of holding Mouses and Keyboards it was replaced with different instruments like gloves and few holding the sacs to put in the Garbage collected and few involved in pulling out the plastic that got stuck-ed in-between the herbs and plants with the help of brooms and sticks.

Finally the release of the project was successful with 197 kg of Plastic in 18 bags.

Totally it was instructed to collect three types of plastics seperately:

1) Thin Plastic
2) Pet bottles
3) Wafers

It was told there that the collected garbage will be sent to KK Constructions where this plastic will be reused to put the roads.
It was suggested that disposing of plastic causes the release of toxic gases so reusing is the best way to avoid that.
Few of our volunteers spoke to localities and visitors to educate them the harm of plastic if not disposed in bins.

There we a got a chance to have a round up discussion how to avoid all this ...?
The solution was nothing but every individual should take the responsibility to mostly avoid the usage of plastic and if not reuse and the least case dispose it in the proper bins.

--Suvarna Lakshmi Thatha
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore