first step....

The IDEA of "Save Nature" is in the hearts of many people for a long time. Just that due to some reason it was not coming to life. Finally on 19th Feb, the group decided to take the first giant step. Muthyalmadu became the chosen one destinition. Amar, Hari, Abhay, Sashi, Shyamala, Bindiya, Roopa, Tejaswi chose to spend one fine Sunday with nature nurturing their DREAM. Dream of Plastic Free Clean and Green Environment.

Thanks to the dedicated effort of Amar and Bindiya all the logistics of food and transportation was taken care of. A little bit of antakshari, a little bit of stopping to pick up water, look for batteries that no-one had and a film roll, the group reached Muthyalmadu pretty early before the sun got too hot.

The place was litter strew and so awful that initially seemed like we have hit a jackpot. We armed ourselves with the gloves we had carried and the garbage bags and we spread ourselves over the stretch from near the KSTDC restaurant to where the staircase leads you down to the stream and the temple.

The amount of plastic we encountered was phenomenal, plastic bottles, ice cream cups, gutkha cover, toffee wrappers (small bits lodged in difficult places), on tree branches, under thorny bushes, in the stream just about everywhere where the eyes could see.

we collected and disposed off with 16 whopppppiing large sized bags of plastic !!!!

Really an amazing start. A fulfilling experience. Moreover this trip showed us the challanges in front of us. An eye opener in true sense. More about the discussion later.
keep watching for more....

Pritesh Jain
for Save Nature
(based on the mail sent by Roopa to the group)