Well, what do you say when you are overwhelmed .. I guess just the trip report and allow that to speak for itself..
Yet a few noteworthy highlights ...
2nd year with Sun Microsystems and the operations are much smoother, operating on a groove. The discussion that Adarsh had with some of the shopkeepers to have them maintain the Sangam picnic spot..
Clean and Green – Trip to Clean
Date: 26 April 2008
Place: Sangam [Arkavathy and Cauvery]
Number of Volunteers that participated: 65 + 8 = 73
Trip Report:
Sun Microsystems kicked off their World Wide Volunteer Week of 2008 on 26th April from Sun office, where two buses, full of volunteers, started at 7:00 AM for a Clean up Drive. This year the location was Sangam, Confluence of Arkavathi and Kaveri rivers. 100 Kms from
73 people from all walks of life, Sun Employees, their family and friends, students form UVCE college, BITS Pilani and volunteers from Clean and Green participated in the trip. The team stopped for breakfast at a school campus in a village. The team reached Sangam little before 11:00 AM.
Here people formed small teams. With rakes, sticks, gunny bags and gloves in their hands volunteers were collecting and segregating plastic under 3 categories. From the stretch of the bank on both sides of Arkavati river, bringing the loads of plastic in gunny bags to the team doing stuffing, stitching, weighing and loading of these bags.
At 1:30 in afternoon the vehicle from KK Plastic Pvt Ltd., was fully loaded with the plastic. After a quick lunch all the volunteers took some rest under the trees.
Sun Microsystems, sponsored 5 dustbins for the Sangam, which we installed there a week before the trip. The tempo took the collected plastic to KK Plastics, where it will be used in the bitumen mixture for laying roads. One Bus started back at 3:00 PM. Some people stayed back to explore the Mekedattu and started back in second bus at 5:00 PM.
Highlights of the Trip:
- 5 dustbins sponsored by Sun Microsystems
- Sponsorship for 2 signboards approved by Sun Microsystems. Clean and Green needs to implement
- Discussion with local shop keeper, with one of the shop keepers suggesting that he can take on the onus of cleaning up Sangam on a regular basis for a small consideration.
Kinds of Plastic Collected: Water Bottles, Toffee Wrappers, Ghutka Wrappers and other variants of it, Ice-Cream cups, plates, food content wrappers, soft drink bottles, soft drink cups.
Amount of Plastic collected in volume: 226 Kg of plastic !!!!
Sponsors: The complete trip end to end was sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems also sponsored 5 dustbins at Sangam, that was placed at site a week before the trip.
Other Expenditure : NA
Expenses Shared By: NA
