Students distribute paper, cloth bags
LUCKNOW: Several educational institutes in the city have taken an initiative to spread awareness against the ill-effects of plastic.
New Way Senior Secondary School, Sector-K, Aliganj and New Vision School, Sector-4, Jankipuram have organised a campaign to apprise people of the hazardous effects of plastics on all the living beings.
The students of these schools made paper bags and distributed them at the main grocery shops in the vicinity.
The motive of the campaign was to sensitize the students towards the need to protect the environment and also to promote love for the environment amongst them, said the school management.
The Lucknow University has also joined the campaign. LU’s Cultural Activity Board, Sanskritiki had proposed to launch the anti-plastic campaign on the campus to reduce and minimize the use of plastics, said Prof NK Pandey, director, Sanskritiki.
“The awareness campaign to reduce and minimize use of plastics will start from the first week of August, 2018 with the help of student volunteers and teachers under the slogan ‘No plastic is fantastic’. The student volunteers participating in the campaign will be called ‘Plastic Terminators’. This decision was taken in a meeting of the Sanskritiki board on Saturday,” Pandey said.
The Hoerner College team has taken a unique step to join the ‘no polythene’ initiative. Recently, the team went door to door in the neighbourhood areas distributing foldable bags and paper bags made by the school.
Besides distributing the bags, the children also made people carrying polythene bags transfer the stuff into cloth bags.