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My Neighborhood Reycling Campaign- Spreading the 'Green Infection' |
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by Rohan Kapur | 11-07-2016 23:59
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Today I would like to share with all of you something particularly interesting. In the recent past, we have all seen people recycling on their own and trying to make a difference in their own capacity and doing an excellent job. However, drops make an ocean. Without reaching out to the masses and collectively working for the Earth?s immediate and necessary protection, it is impossible to make a change. Therefore, I have not only resolved to recycling, but have also made it a point to encourage my community. How? Let me tell you. I have initiated the ?Neighborhood Paper Recycling Campaign? and the ?Plastic bottle Take-Back Campaign? in my community for the past few months. It has truly yielded some amazing results. This is because, not only am I doing my part for the environment but am also spreading the essence of preservation and sustainability through a simple act of recycling. I call it, spreading the ?Green Infection?. Why not infect the world with positivity, and especially in the sphere of something that is absolutely vital for our future and our future generations? These children, believe me are so enthusiastic always keen to be the top collector of the month in paper, plastic or cans, a bait, which is leading them to indirectly work towards the green cause. Two young girls (The first photo), Noopur and Resham are only 10 and 6 years old respectively, but they come, every week without fail to deliver their recyclables. One time, they even showed some innovation by beating the challenge of carrying their heavy recyclables, by using their bicycle as a stand! It is truly very inspiring to learn such innocent, yet efficient ideas from the new generation, which is going to handle our world tomorrow. Yet another example which I have to take is a boy named Kunal (second Picture) who came one Friday morning and submitted 84kg of newspapers. He was flying to India the very next day, and it was the last day of the month. Sure that he wouldn?t be able to do anything about it, I told him that he had fallen short by just 15 kg this month to be the top collector but encouraged him to do even better next time. To my surprise, early in the evening, I got a call from him saying that he had collected some more newspaper! I welcomed him to submit and when we weighed them, we found the newspaper to be 24kgs, his total easily becoming the top for that month. Not only them, but I also have a college going student, Amit and his younger brother Anish, who come every month to submit their recyclables without fail. In this manner, till now I have collected and recycled from my neighborhood more than 3000 kgs of newspaper, thus saving 51 trees since 2016 has started. And it?s not only the environmental difference that we are making. It?s about the lives we touch. When I asked Kunal how did he collect 24kgs in a few hours, he said that he ed all of his friends, who ed THEIR friends to give all the newspapers that they had to Kunal. So, I was right about the ?Green Infection?, wasn?t I? :?) |
     
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14 Comments
Thanks Joanita, let's all get involved in 'Green Infection'.
Posted 29-09-2016 16:09
wow wow wow.. i really love this! thanks for the work Rahul... i am now thinking in the same line of green infection. am really amazed by this. Keep Up.
Posted 30-08-2016 20:12
@Heonjun sir, thanks for your keen observations and motivation to perform to my best, and even better, in the near future. :-D
Posted 17-07-2016 23:31
Thanks Joshua! I sincerely believe that the ripple effect is what is going to make a cleaner earth! :)
Posted 17-07-2016 23:30
Thank you Minjoo Ma'am for your words of inspiration! I really hope that I can continue this and I assure you to put in my 100% efforts, with the help of my neighbors and friends of course. :)
Posted 17-07-2016 23:29
@Eco-Generation, I definitely will make it a point to post about this as regularly as I can, and promise, that I will keep exponentially growing my efforts towards the environment! :')
Posted 17-07-2016 23:26
Thanks Rahul for your appreciation! I hope I can live up to the expectations. :)
Posted 17-07-2016 23:25
@ Patricia I'm sure that we all can strive to do our best and triumph, with our ultimate goal being the zero carbon footprint!
Congrats on your new initiative which good results in such a short period of time and all the best for the future!
Posted 17-07-2016 23:24
Thanks for writing a follow-up report Rohan! How you, the two young girls, and the others are committed to this project shows a great dedication to others and hopefully that will be a starting point of every change around you :D thanks for spreading the good news through this site :D
Posted 16-07-2016 22:21
Very innovative - Green infection. Congrats for being able to start this initiative. A good example for many young eco leaders to follow.
Posted 12-07-2016 22:59
Rohan, it is so impressive of you to gather such newpapers and bottles. It must have been hard work, but thankfully it looks like you have nice neighbors that can help you a lot. Thanks for sharing such wonderful experience, and have a great day!
Posted 12-07-2016 22:21
Great initiative as always! Hope to read your posting on this great initiative every year!!! This should be continued!
Posted 12-07-2016 14:18
Inspiring report Rohan. Hope to see you progressing through community initiative activities like this mates.
Posted 12-07-2016 00:41
This is great! My team and I have thought about this before but not with papers, with used cooking oil as we could use the used cooking oil to make biodiesel and biosoap. It's incredible that you have collected 3000kgs of paper. I am now very inspired to do the same.
I have done it in within my school and I've written a report about it too. We collected 112.5 kg of paper. I sure hope that one day, we can be as good as you. Thank you for sharing your report!
Posted 12-07-2016 00:10