As many as 150 volunteers on Sunday embarked on cleaning plastic garbage along the Musi waterfront as a part of the National Green Corps (NGC) initiative against plastic pollution.
Days ahead of World Environment Day – which is observed on June 5 – the clean-up at Chaderghat was also an attempt to enter the Asian Book of Records for a 12-hour-long awareness programme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.
According to NCG project director T. Radhika, the volunteers cleared three truck-loads of plastic refuse which was then taken away by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation staff to be dumped in a scientific manner.
Volunteers then participated in a workshop which threw light on substitutes of plastics for storing or carrying household material.
“As a part of our awareness campaign, we spoke to volunteers about the ill effects of plastic. After the cleaning up at Chaderghat Musi river front, they took part in a cloth bag workshop. Here they were trained to make such bags. After this, they went on an anti-plastics door-to-door campaign,” Ms. Radhika said.