Exchange Ten Plastic Bags for a Cloth Bag!
Times News Network
In a novel initiative to rid Coimbatore of plastic mounds clogging the city, corporate companies and students have come together to pick up at least 50 lakh plastic bags and instead, hand over 5 lakh cloth bags to the residents - one cloth bag in exchange for 10 used plastic carry bags.
Students from 98 schools and 29 colleges have already collected 35 lakh plastic carry bags from residents.
Students of Sri Krishna College came up with the idea "to give 10 plastic bags and take one cloth bag". They have installed four anti-plastic monsters at public places to warn residents of the dangers of plastics.
"We decided to make this anti-plastic drive a people's movement. We roped in city residents, school children and college students to be our green volunteers," says T.Soundararajan, the Managing Director of CRI Pumps Ltd and the vice-president of Residents' Awareness Association of Coimbatore (RAAC). Leading corporates, including Pricol, Lakshmi Machine Works and Annapoorna Group of Hotels, who came together to launch the RAAC, sponsored the cloth bags for the anti-plastic program.
Excerpt from "Exchange 10 Plastic bags for a Cloth bag", Times News Network, The Times of India, Chennai, June 30, 2008.
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