125 drives and counting
They fix the spots for upcoming plogging runs in advance and create events on their social media handles. People who wish to join can register or join them directly on spot.
Different areas in the city are covered every week to reach out to a larger audience. Vivek has personally traveled to places where people need a basic orientation to start a plogging movement on their own. They have teams in different cities like Dehradun, Mumbai, and Kolhapur and are connecting Ploggers from different cities now and trying to come up with simultaneous Plogging Runs to raise awareness about Health and Plastic Pollution Crisis.
Impact till date.
Pune Ploggers has completed 125 plogging drives. They have a collaboration with Local Trash Collectors and Pune Municipal Corporation Solid Waste Management department who have been helping them in recycling the plastic collected. Other waste is sent for composting and further treatment. Pune Ploggers has collected over 70,000 kg Plastic till now which itself is a huge collection.
Their efforts were recognized by the Embassy of Sweden in India, Mann Ki Baat Team, Pune Municipal Corporation, All India Radio ( Akashwani)-Pune and many other media channels.
Vivek wishes this becomes a collective effort of all the stakeholders and turns into a mass movement with public participation.
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