Clean Up Trip With Hewlett Packard

Clean and Green – Trip to Clean

Date: 17 Apr 2010

Place: Muththathi [Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary]

Number of Volunteers that participated: 45 + 3 + 2 = 50

Trip Report:
Hewlett Packard India., Bangalore, as part of the Sustainability Networks Chapter in India have been involved in Environmental projects. Further progressing their involvement set off on a Clean up drive of a picnic spot in the Wildlife Sanctuary of Karnataka. Supported by volunteers from Clean and Green [Archisman Panigrahi, Jayashree Srinivasan, Rakesh Chandra, Anitha Majji and Roopa Sankaran]. The 45 enthusiastic and bouncing with energy volunteers loaded into the bus started from Hewlett Packard Salarpuria office [near Forum Mall, Koramangala] at 6:30AM on 17 Apr 2010.

As their first trip the location chosen was Mutthathi, the scenic and regiliously significant place in the wilderness of the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. 100 Kms from Bangalore in the thick forest, this place is one of the favorite places for picnickers.45 HP Volunteers and 3 volunteers from Clean and Green participated in the trip. The team successfully rolled out of the Bangalore City limits very soon after 6:30AM, giving a head start over the blazing sun during the travel. The group had reached Kanakapura (mid way) well before 8AM. So the team decided to stop for breakfast after Satanur. The bus stopped for breakfast near the outer limits of Satanur village. After a well packed, wholesome breakfast, again set off towards Mutthathi. Clean and Green volunteers gave a briefing to the team about Clean and Green and the information shared was greeted with happy and loud cheers for the group’s efforts. The team reached Mutthathu a little after 10AM.

The HP team coordinator was T Naveen Kumar. He was supported on the logistics front through a vendor company contracted by HP. The logistics was handled very smoothly, leaving the volunteers to focus on having fun. Naveen’s coordination and the efforts of the vendor company members who accompanied the trip, are praiseworthy and notable.
Again the impacts of small gestures are often lasting. HP had arranged for sun screen lotion to be made available to all the volunteers.

So soon after unloading from the bus at Mutthathi, the sunscreen lotion was distributed, ensured that all volunteers wore it and then the briefing on the segregation of plastic was started.

The eager team had to face the blazing sun and unbearable heat. The need to drink lot of water to prevent dehydration was stressed for ensuring adherence.

The cleaning started off in earnestness, with the team wanting to chase a goal of collecting huge amounts of plastic. The team broke out into smaller groups, and left with the gunny sacks and rakes to do the clean up. As ever the number of sacks initially seemed insufficient for the volumes being collected. Soon a small team started stuffing and compressing the plastic into the gunny sacks enabling re-use of some of the sacks and soon we had more sacks than needed.

The cleaning went on about an hour before everyone wanted to take a break. After which the team continued and collected some more plastic waste. The onlookers and picnickers were curious about the work we were doing.

The target for the team was 100 Kgs which was achieved in 2 hours. After stuffing and packing the garbage, the team went to the Forest Dept., facility for washing up and waited for the lunch. The notable element of this trip was HP had also sponsored a three wheeler vehicle to deliver the lunch at Mutthathi.

The delicious and sumptuous lunch was polished off in no time. After which a few brave-hearts set off walking towards Jungle Lodges and Resorts property. The heat was unbearable and though a 4.5 Km walk seemed doable, when we realized that the stretch is 6Km, all of us chickened out and boarded the bus.

The three wheeler vehicle which had carried the lunch for the volunteers was pressed into service to transport the garbage back. All the 100 Kgs of waste plastic was loaded and the vehicle went to Jungle Lodges and Resorts.

On the way back to Bangalore through Haleguru, we stopped at the Jungle Lodges and Resorts. The Clean and Green volunteers met the Resident Manager of CFF, Bheemeswari and the Executive Director of JLR (who was on a visit to the property).

The garbage collected by the Cleaning Staff members (working at Mutthathi) is stored on the JLR property in gunny sacks and stitched up. There were huge number of sacks with the waste collected by the JLR staff. Clean and Green volunteers took permission from the HP coordinator to carry back some of the trash collected by JLR staff. Soon another 100Kgs of waste from the efforts of the JLR staff was also loaded into the three wheeler vehicle. Which then left for Bangalore.

The team enjoyed the scenic beauty of the place and immersed themselves in nature with walks along the banks of the river.

Highlights of the Trip:
During the clean up, we learnt that Jungle Lodges and Resorts, Bheemeswari has hired a 6 member cleaning staff team retained on a monthly salary, to maintain the cleanliness of Mutthathi.
When the team went to Jungle Lodges and Resorts Bheemeswari, the same information was confirmed by the Resident Manager of Jungle Lodges and Resorts, Bheemeswari.
Clean and Green congratulates the Jungle Lodges and Resorts, taking responsibility of the areas near their property, and would like to commend the MD and his staff on this progressive step forward.
Clean and Green volunteers also had an opportunity to meet with the Executive Director of Jungle Lodges and Resorts, at Bheemeswari.

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: 100 Kg of plastic !!!!

Sponsors: The complete trip end to end was sponsored by Hewlett Packard.

Other Expenditure : NA

Expenses Incurred by HP : Details available with HP Coordinator.

Oracle Trip to Clean : After a Year's Break : 12 Sep 2009

Date: September 12 2009. Place: Muthathi

Number of Volunteers that participated: 56


Oracle India kicked off their World Wide Volunteer Week of 2009 on a drizzling day on 12th September from Oracle office, at 8:10 AM for a Clean up Drive. This year the location was Muthathi, 100 Kms from Bangalore under the forest, this place is one of the favourite places for picnickers.

52 people from all walks of life, Oracle Employees, their friends and volunteers from Clean and Green participated in the trip. The team stopped for breakfast 15kms away from Kanakapura. The team reached Muthathi around 11:30 AM. After a brief from Sandeep to the volunteers about the clean-up, volunteers formed small teams.

With rakes, gunny bags and gloves in their hands volunteers were collecting and segregating plastic under 3 categories and bringing loads of plastic in gunny bags to the team doing stuffing and stitching.At 3:00 in afternoon all the volunteers had lunch at a cool place provided by the forest officials and took some rest. Sandeep gave a brief about Clean N Green group and what efforts we are putting to attain a sustainable solution to keep the famous picnic spot Clean and Green. Then all volunteers gathered to check the amount of the plastics collected before leaving back to Bangalore at around 4:30PM.

Highlights of the Trip:
4 cement rings sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Painted the Cement rings

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: 192 Kg of plastic !!!!

Sponsors: The complete trip end to end was sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd. Oracle India also sponsored 4 cement rings at Muthathi, that was placed at the site a week before the trip.

Volunteers in Action

Painting the Bins

THE GROUP

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Proposal to Intel : 14 Sep 2009

Vee Clean and Green has submitted a proposal to Intel (India), seeking their support for implementing the long term solution of employing local tribals in keeping Mutthathi clean of plastic litter.

This is such a key part of the Vee Clean and Green vision.

Awaiting the declaration of the contest that this proposal is a contestant of.

Secretary, Dept of Forest, Govt of Karnataka

http://veecleanandgreenmeetingminutes.blogspot.com/2009/09/dialogue-with-secretary-department-of.html

See the link above for updates on the dialogue with the Govt of Karnataka with Vee Clean and Green

Saahas and Rotary Club

See details of the synergy between Vee Clean and Green and other groups/clubs

http://veecleanandgreenmeetingminutes.blogspot.com/2009/09/rotary-club-and-vee-clean-and-green.html

http://veecleanandgreenmeetingminutes.blogspot.com/2009/09/saahas-and-vee-clean-and-green.html

Initiative at Coorg

See details in the link below

http://veecleanandgreenmeetingminutes.blogspot.com/2009/09/vee-clean-and-green-at-coorg.html

Waiting for the monsoons to get over to embark on this project.

Mahadevapura Clean up with Life Dream Students : 17 May 2009

Vee Clean and Green volunteers : Sachin, Sheetal, Roopa, Jayashree, Pratibha, and Sachin's friend.
Life Dream Coordinators : Sabitha and Salina.
Life Dream Volunteers : 15 in number
Sponsor of Equipment : Life Dream
Waste Collection : KK Plastic Waste Mgmt Pvt Ltd.,

Location : 120 housese hamlet in Mahadevpura.
Clean up time : 10AM to 1 pm.

Collection : 8 Sack loads of plastic

Value : Tremendous satisfaction to see the Life Dream volunteers throw themselves enthusiastically into the cleaning process and the awareness they built in the community while doing the clean up. Priceless.

Clean up Trip : Sangam : 18 Apr 2009

There were two events on the same day 18 Apr 2009. Sun Microsystems for the 3rd Year running worked shoulder to shoulder with the help of Vee Clean and Green volunteers to clean plastic litter from Sangam (~45 Km from Kankapura).

Pradeep Singh and Rakesh Chandra - key volunteers from Vee Clean and Green.

Trip Details :

Sun Microsystems World Wide Volunteer Week, 2009 kick started on 18 April from the Sun office at Divyasree Chambers, when two buses, full of volunteers, started at 7:00 AM for a Clean up Drive. We were headed towards Sangam, Confluence of Arkavathi and Kaveri rivers.

In the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary amidst forests, 100 Kms from Bangalore this is a beautiful picnic spot which attracts thousands of picnickers every year. Like many other picnic spots Sangam is also littered with lots of plastic bags, bottles and plastic cups which is very harmful for environment.

55 people from all walks of life, Sun Employees, their family and friends, students form UVCE, RVCE, PESIT and RNSIT and volunteers from Vee Clean and Green joined in for this drive. We had introductions and fun games on the way before stopping for breakfast at a school campus in a village. We reached Sangam at 10:30 AM.

Here people formed small teams. With rakes, gunny bags and gloves in their hands volunteers were collecting and segregating plastic under 3 categories. From the stretch of both sides of Arkavati river, bringing the loads of plastic in gunny bags to the team doing stuffing and stitching of these bags. Another team of volunteers took charge of installing and painting four dustbins. When this all was happening some volunteers took care of supply of enough water and fresh lime to all volunteers and also spreading awareness among local people and picnickers. Overall it was a great team work, with volunteers working in hot summer, which resulted in collection of 140 Kg of plastic and a lots cleaner Sangam.

Jungle Lodges and Resorts are helping Vee Clean and Green to deliver the collected plastic to KK Plastic Waste Management Pvt Ltd., for recycling, and they offered their help in this event too.

After lunch at 2:00 PM people took some rest under the trees. There we could feel the serenity of nature. Its a bliss being being so close to nature.

One Bus started back at 3:00 PM. Some people stayed back to explore Mekedatu and started back in second bus at 5:00 PM. We had some snacks on the way back in bus and had as exciting round of Antakshari. This bus reached back by 8:00 PM.

Life Dream and Vee Clean and Green - A social Initiative

An introduction to Life Dream : http://www.lifedreamfoundation.org/insidepages.html

At Life Dream, the 3 months program is conducted FREE, and the students are suggested to give a gurudakshina. The students will champion the environment issue facing the locality and work towards solving them.

Towards that on 18 Apr 09, two of Vee Clean and Green volunteers conducted an awareness program for the students of Life Dream on Environment, Plasitc litter, effects and how Vee Clean and Green is making an impact.

Cooperation with Jungle Lodges and Resorts : Meeting 23 Jan 2009

This post you will find on the main Vee Clean and Green blog and on the Vee Clean and Green : Meeting Minutes blog. This is really the most important step forward towards a long term solution..

Deepa Mohan and Roopa represented Vee Clean and Green team in this meeting with the MD, Jungle Lodges and Resorts (Mr N D Tiwari)

We were invited to a meeting with the MD, Jungle Lodges and Resorts. An honour to have such an opportunity. Clean and Green was represented by Deepa Mohan and Roopa Sankaran. As remarked by Sandeep - another Red Letter Day for Vee Clean and Green.

Mr N.D Tiwari, MD, JLR received us on time. Thanked him for the support extended so far. He asked what are the other areas that we can work together on. Just minuting the discussion :

1. JLR will have some staff (identified number of staff) working in Mutthathi and Sangama to do the clean up during weekdays. Weekends being very busy at JLR, the staff will work duing the weekdays on cleaning up.

2. JLR property managers will now become part of the EDC and actively participate in involving the locals in maintaining the picnic spots. Clean and Green volunteers to be prompters to the Managers to ensure this is taking place.

3. JLR vehicles will continue to bring back the plastic from this cleaning to KK Plastics Waste Management - as has been recently accomplished. Again Clean and Green to play the prompter role, to ensure no slack in the continued activities. Note 1 : Mr Tiwari, assured that he will direct his staff at Galibore and Bheemeswari about the role they have to play in ensuring these above mentioned points. Note 2 : Mr Tiwari expressed his concern over the problem of litter and assured that having a clean environ is a felt need. He was very appreciative of the efforts from Clean and Green so far.

4. Provide a proposal for review to Mr Karthik of JLR, who will then coordinate a meeting of Clean and Green with Director Tourism Subhash Hari Singh. Note 3 : Mr Tiwari, reassured that Clean and Green will face no challenges and will enjoy and recieve support from his office and his staff in the implementation of the key points (above) in ensuring Muttathi and Sangama clean.

Painting Dust Bins at Sangam Trip : Honeywell : 14 Dec 2008

Honeywell sponsored a trip and items required for the painting of bins at Sangam (confluence of Arkavathi and Cauvery) picnic spot.

There is no report from this trip. This trip coordinator was Pradeep Singh. Sandeep sent detailed notes on the procedure and items required as a preparation for this trip. Which is a Painting Bin 1-0-1 at its best. Refer group mails for the same.

Clean Up Trip to Mutthathi : Wipro Cares 22 Nov 2008

The Wipro Care trip to clean up Mutthathi was preceeded with a short corporate presentation to the volunteer group, conducted by Deepa.

This trip too does not seem to have followed the trip report format. There is a personal post by Deepa Mohan.

http://deponti.livejournal.com/468244.html

The formal notes of the Clean Up Event
On the 22nd of November, the Wipro and the Clean and Green Volunteers left rather later than usual, as the caterers did not deliver the food earlier.

Meanwhile, Roopa had spoken to the Forest Department officials regarding our use of their campus for lunch.
It was nice to meet the people from Wipro, and luckily for us, though it remained cloudy for most of the day, the rain held off. We had breakfast on the bus, and Geetha organized tea/coffee from a nearby teastall as we stopped.
However, we were in for a further delay, as the bus got diverted at Kanakapura town, due to ongoing road work; we had to crawl over very bad roads,and reached the cleanup site at 11.30 am... a record of sorts for such a cleanup I think!
Deepak and a few friends had also found the going pretty rough but had got there by car and were waiting for us.
I gave the volunteers a short talk about C'n'G and our objectives, and also about how to segregate and collect the plastic. Rakes, sacks and gloves were unpacked and the volunteers fanned out and set to work. I must say that in my opinion, the picnic area trash has come down in volume.
Once the work was under way, Deepak, Anush, and I went to Bheemeshwari and met Mr Sundar Raj (landline 08231 694248/695249/218252/ 218232, mobile no. 94495 99768, email: Sunder@gmail.com) , the Resident Manager of JLR, and told him that the sacks would be ready for collection in a couple of hours' time. He said that he would send a jeep at about 5.30pm.

Mr Sundar made the suggestion that instead of concentrating on repeated cleanups, C'n'G could change its approach. He said that for Rs.6000 p.m, he could organize the local tribals to patrol the area and clean up the litter regularly, and the practice of collection by JLR and delivery to KK Plastics could continue, and that he could supervise this.

He pointed out that probably the cost of that day's cleanup was more for Wipro; so, if we could organize a regular supply of money from the corporates, it would be a sustainable way of dealing with the trash. Deepak feels that this should not pose a problem at all. I think we should meet and have a discussion about this, and if we really can organize a regular source, then putting the tribals to work on a daily basis would certainly be a better solution than repeated cleanups. We have to work out the modalities of how to get the money, and also, how to disburse it in the most effective way possible.
After about two and a half hours, we called a halt to the trash collection, and the sacks were stitched up and weighed; a total of 167 kgs was the day's collection. I must say that the Wipro volunteers showed a lot of enthusiasm! It was great to work with them. The rakes, sacks and gloves were packed away (Roopa, do let us know where they are being stored now...are they with you?)
Roopa spoke to several of the Forest Department officials, and the locals also. can give the details of her conversation. The Forest Department was supportive, as always.
We all walked to the Forest Department campus where lunch was served and eaten;in spite of the caterer's warnings that lunch should be consumed at 12.15, the food was still perfectly good at nearly 3pm!
Many of the volunteers then opted for the pleasant walk (4 km) from Muthathi to Bheemeshwari, and the others packed up the food, and came in the bus, picking up anyone who was tiring, on the road. It was delightful to walk down, and Anush and I managed to spot several birds as well, and I had earlier seen a couple of mongooses on the path too, so it was truly a Nature walk!
The way back proved slightly less tortuous, but still the diversion at Kanakapura took some time. We stopped to have tea/coffee at Harohalli, and came home, tired but happy with what we have achieved, at about 7pm.
Sandeep Sanwal of Wipro has already joined the egroup as a C'n'G volunteer. I am sending a separate email to Geetha to be forwarded to the volunteers, giving the details of how to join the egroup, and where to upload the photographs that one volunteer took. I have already uploaded the photographs I took to the C'n'G Photobucket site and have forwarded them to Geetha too.

We must all thank Geetha for a lot of hard work that she put into this day's outing; I think the food, in particular, cost her a lot of effort! But she not only did a great job, but was smiling through it all, even though she has a tremendous backlog of work to address!


Looking forward to getting more volunteers to strengthen our hands, and hoping that the next meeting will bring about more fruitful solutions to the ever-present problem of trash,

Clean Up Trip to Mutthathi : Wipro Cares : 30 Aug 2008

Sandhya Ranjit : Wipro Care and Vee Clean and Green join hands to conduct a massive clean up drive at Mutthathi on 30 Aug 2008. See the excerpts (duly edited) of the thank you note from Sandhya to members of Vee Clean and Green in the note below

From: sandhya.ranjit @ wipro Date: Sep 1, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: thanks for making it
Hi, A big thank you to all of you for making the visit to Muthathi happen last Saturday. And a bigger thank you for the opportunity you gave us to contribute our mite to the environment.

….now that we have done it once, we will be at it on a regular basis. Wiproites enjoyed it very much and want to have more such trips.

Clean Mutthathi Trip with Honeywell : 14 Jun 2008

Number of Volunteers : 28 from Honeywell + 4 from Clean and Green

- Trip Briefing:

On Saturday, we all went by bus for a Clean and Green cleanup drive to Muthathi. We left Bangalore at about 8 am and reached Kanakapura about an hour later, and we halted for a hot breakfast at Ratna Upahara, our customary joint! The other bus with Roopa and the medical camp volunteers went independently to Alathahalli village.

Post-breakfast, we arrived in Muthathi village, and drove up to the picnic spot, where all of us alighted, and brought out the rakes, sacks and gloves. Sandeep gave all the Honeywell volunteers a short briefing about the different kinds of plastic to be picked up...bottles, plastic covers and cups, composites like Kurkure packets, and so on. He advised them not to pick up glass, to drink plenty of water, and use gloves if necessary.

The volunteers fanned out and began working with a will. Meanwhile the Range Forest Officer, Mr Kempe Gowda was invited over to the site. He came along with a few of his colleagues, and inspected the work going on. He also gave Sandeep the quotation for making boards at the picnic site. Clean and Green is glad for this support from the Forest Dept, and hope to be able to put up the signboards and place some waste bins soon.

Several visitors to the picnic spot were curious about our work. "How much are you getting for all the stuff you are collecting?" one lady asked Deepa. The concept of cleaning up the waste, and how it might affect the area if left unclean was explained to her. She looked thoughtful as she left!

It was great to see the Honeywell volunteers working so hard. Mutthathi needs as many volunteers as we can have for every clean up. All of us stopped from time to time to exchange jokes, drink water, or wash our faces...it was rather hot, dusty and sweaty work. The volunteers displayed great enthusiasm!

The work went on until about 1.30pm, when all the trash that was collected was stuffed into the HDPE bags, which were sewn up, and weighed. This was also great fun, with Sandeep asking, "how much will THIS sack weigh?" and estimates being made loudly, from 10 to 30 kg (that particular sack weighed 12 kg) We found that 31 volunteers had collected 74 kg of plastic!

All of us then got into the bus and adjourned to the Forest Department campus, where we all had a much needed wash and then had the delicious lunch which Honeywell had brought along. We also invited Mr Kempe Gowda and his colleagues to join us. Meanwhile, Sandeep had made a very valuable contact.

Mr D C Raju, a social worker who works for an NGO, and who is a member of the EDC (Environmental Development Council.) His mobile no. is 98456 02265, and his landline (residence) no is 08231 698002. He has promised to let us know, a week in advance, when the next EDC meet is going to be. Getting our foot in the door at the EDC meeting is very important for us to have a dialogue with the villagers, so this contact is really important.

So leaving some people to clear up lunch and wind up at the Forest Dept, the rest of us set off on the walk. On the way, we saw a goddess astride a tiger being taken in a procession to the river.

The road to Bheemeshwari was green and beautiful, as it meandered along the banks of the Cauvery. We had lovely view, and we really enjoyed walking along.

At the JLR camp there, we were unable to meet Lokesh,but met Mr Pampapati, and told him about the trash waiting to be collected at the usual place. Some of the volunteers had a look at the JLR property (oh, the Giant Grizzled Squirrel was very much in evidence today!) and then we all drove back contentedly to Bangalore.

All in all, the cleanup part of the day was a great success, and I got to meet several people and exchange views.

Kind of plastic collected:

The usual Bottles of Water, and other beverages, Ghutka Wrappers and other variants of it, plastic cups, plates, food content wrappers, soft drink bottles, soft drink cups.

- Amount of Plastic collected in volume and weight: 74 Kgs of plastic

Clean up Mutthathi with Honeywell

Week of Giving in Jun by Honeywell. The second time with Clean and Green. In tandem a Health Camp at another village in Mallavalli District.

Honeywell's CSR group joined hands with Clean and Green again to conduct a Clean up trip to Mutthathi on 14th Jun 2008.

There has been a lot of activity since Apr. Sun Micosystems Clean up at Sangama, Kiosk at HP, Presentation at Wipro and now again a cleanup with Honeywell at Mutthathi.

Medical Camp at Allathahalli : 14 Jun 2008

The Honeywell as part of their Week of Giving, on 14 Jun also organised a medical camp at a village close to Mallavalli, called Allathahalli ..

Close to 800 villagers were assembled at the school village to greet the volunteer team when the team reached at about 10am. Young, old, men, women.. educated, aware, completely unaware.. there were all of them. Waiting to pour their woes and get free medicines..

We assembled to for a bit of a "do", of lighting the lamp and soon after that school children were engaged in various competions. In the meantime, the doctors - a GP, a Gyeanec, Optho, Nuero, ENT and Dentist setup their respective consultation rooms. Each of these rooms were assigned numbers. The volunteers setup benches where the people were recieved, name, age, weight were entered in slip. The volunteers would ask the people what the primary complaint was and put the room number they had to go for consultation to.

For the very old a volunteer would lead them by hand to the room they had to meet the doctor at. Much commotion prevailed all through the day, as the weary people did not want to wait their turn. The problem was, they had assembled at 6am for the medical camp to start. Yet the volunteers tried to streamline the people/patients to some extent. This was extremely tiring but the exchanges were generally pleasant during the entire transaction.

Breaking up for lunch proved even more difficult as the patients all wanted to sure, they were examined before we left.
The wash up, the simple lunch at the caterer's house (who works on a contract basis with Honeywell), the simple hospitality, the amble back to the school made one feel very welcome in the community. Genuine respect for what the volunteer represented felt appropriate.

Time at the dispensary that was setup was very well thought out.. The recieving of the prescription, filling it out, the handing it out the correct patient, explaining the dosage, worked well, almost without hitches. The experience of setting up a mobile medical camp. the logistics involved, the coordination that takes place in the background to put together a camp of this size, which appeared effortless, was am sure an outcome of tireless work by many in Honeywell.

Clean and Green Kiosk at HP : 9th and 10th Jun 08

World Environment Week !! Here we come ! Sharing the same space as the Environment espousing giants such as WWF. Clean and Green made its presence the large cafeteria of HP in their CV Raman Nagar facility.

A small table, a few pictures a banner and a few spirited volunteers behind the desk complete the picture of the Clean and Green kiosk at HP.

With interested employees coming to the kiosk to get more information about the group, the common comment has been .. this is a wonderful initiative.

The whole exercise enabled Clean and Green to socialise its philosophy with the HP employees. Some of the enthused employees are now members on the e-group of Clean and Green

Fotos on display at the Kiosk :

Presentation at Wipro Electronics City

Mail and telephonic discussions with Wipro and we decided to do a plastic awareness presentation and on how to responsibly use and dispose plastics at each of the 15 locations of the Wipro offices. Each presentation is to be followed up with a trip to clean ..

The first of the Shrinkhala or series is set for the 30 May ...

Deepa Mohan conducted the session, at the Electronics city office .. Notes from her mail about the presentation.

I was really happy that there was a lot of questions and interaction from many members in the group after I finished speaking...and I found that many of the members of the audience were brimming with ideas, not only to partner with Clean and Green, but also about trying to make a
difference in small ways on their campus itself.

I was very happy to see that we were addressing individuals who are already pretty socially
aware.

Citizen Matter : 29 May 2008

Clean and Green has been media shy for a long time, wanting to truly make a difference than just talk about it ...

Yet when one of the key volunteers is also a regular contributor to one of the most read blog in the country / definitely in the city.. some drums to sound .. some trumpets are raised

Here is the Latest write up about Clean and Green @ Citizen Matters : Titled No Talk, Just Clean and Green by Deepa Mohan
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/209-no-talk

Sun Microsystem : 2nd Year Running

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 Bangalore under the forest, this place is one of the favorite places for picnickers.

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