6. Students talk about the problems in their villages. Various ideas are written down and discussed. A common link is seen in the listed problems. Students decide to take up work on the common enemy –PLASTIC.
8. Student groups formed and they go to the different villages to get an idea of the ground situation.
9. Working out strategies and plans 3rd week of September 2010
10. Groups work out strategies to spread awareness about the evils of plastic. They meet village heads and get their cooperation.
11. They make arrangements with a person who is in the recycling business to collect the waste material once in 3 months. They go from door to door and talk with people. Pamphlets are distributed and CDs shown highlighting the evils of plastic.
13. Students clear the existing garbage dumps and sort out non bio degradable items. They start collecting plastics and papers from houses and motivate villagers to avoid use of plastics as far as possible. They also tell villagers to compost the degradable waste.
15. Street plays , Rallies, Public announcements are made to reinforce the message and ensure that the villagers cooperation will continue in the days to come.
16. Students take the help of volunteers to completely clean out existing non degradable waste.
20. At the end of the day the 7 villages (Kasuva, Ramanathapuram, Puliyur, Pakkam, Melakkondaiyar, Sivanvoyal, KaliyanurKandigai) looked clean and neat. The entire appearance of the villages had changed.
