Day 52-WEC- Rolling the Ball!

I have been thinking and thinking and getting frustrated with the state of affairs for years.

Plastic everywhere!
Deterioration of the environment!
Pollution!
Negativity amongst people!

First, I decided to go off the grid, ran away to Ooty, tried to find a farm to rent out.

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him you have a plan!"

Apart from what was intended, everything else that was not intended happened.
I came home. Dejected, scared but not hopeless.
I took my time.
Stayed underground for a while.
Reworked myself.
And the opportunity walked in.

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

Goa is becoming a garbage dump day by day. The Government isn't doing much, as always, they have better things to take care of, such as 'increasing their Party strength in the Legislative Assembly and kick off some past allies' or  fill their personal treasury in the name of running a Government! 

All of them are pathetically the same kind. 

Aso ( 'Anyway' in marathi),

So there was this 12 week Go wasteless Program started by this woman called Saritha. 

( The Waste Less Project collectively researches local solutions on waste reduction for the larger community.
Follow the project via: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/wastelessgoa) OR Instagram (@wastelesspro).
WhatsApp Invite - https://chat.whatsapp.com/K1DRmATLF71HaVFK2N5URl)

We just had to sign up and she personally sent us information every week and helped me to reduce my waste drastically.

What more, I even started composting and planting more trees than ever before. 

I should say this program alone made almost 50% change in my behaviour as a consumer, as a citizen and a human being. 

One of the requirement of the 12 week program was to talk about this subject in our communities. 

That's what I did. 

I talked to Mahila Mandal with over a 100 members about the solutions to our Garbage problems and ended the talk with an Action plan for the Mandal.

Lucky me, the Mandal took it up!

We then held a meeting with the Municipal Counselor and the residents of 2 wards. 

A. We pledged to send 0 waste to the landfill.

B. We pledged to hand over our dry waste to a responsible recycler.

C. We pledged to learn composting at home and at community level.

Next, we invited the Garbage Warrior of Goa Mr. Carneiro to visit Comba, our ward to guide us about waste management. He checked some of the black spots and then took us to a community composting unit he had set up for 120 residents. 

<---- This is a Black Soldier Fly larvae composter with 1000 ltrs capacity.

Apart from educating ourselves and spreading awareness, we are taking steps to minimize garbage as much as possible. We are talking with several people about starting something similar to an Eco Posro in Comba. Check this out:
Goa's very First Eco Posro!

There are some nay Sayers of course. But there are so many enthusiasts who are ready and willing to participate in this revolution.

We just have to get the ball rolling!

"Dum Laga ke Haisha"!