6.6.2025. 9pm IST
On World Environment day , most plant a tree or a sapling on 5th of June 2025.
Rest of the 364 days how do we contribute towards the Environment?
Well @ Street Providence on 5th June , we did nothing, but for the rest of the 364 days we collected a huge quantity of good Cooked food which would have reached the garbage bins and reduced the plastic which would have gone with this cooked food into the garbage.
Last 364 days ie 1.4.24 to 31.3.25 our food bank saved the Environment by :
1. collecting 100000 kgs of cooked good food,
2. reducing 10000 kgs of plastic, as this good food would have reached the bins in plastic bags,
3. Fed the poorest of the poor about 2 lac meals.
This 100000 kgs of food & 10000 kgs of plastic was surely going to the bins and this was a pilot project run with the support of Factories and Boilers, Department, Government of Goa along with 13 Factories.
[ Note when disposing of 10 kgs wet waste one requires 1 kg single use plastic.]
These 13 factories are in these placrs :
◇ 9 Factories @ Verna industrial Estate ,
◇ 2 Factories @ Corlim industrial Estate,
◇ 1 factory @ Kundanim industrial Estate
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1 factory @ San Jose De areal industrial Estate.
Goa is having the highest per capita plastic waste issue in india and only lip service is shown time & time again by the authorities here in Goa.
And to top it all , all law makers planted a sapling which looked to me as a formality on 5th June 25
If we are to seriously save our Environment then its a 365 day commitment.
Street Providence Goa has a concrete and ready plan to reduce wet waste and single use plastic to the extent of :
》Daily. 5000 kgs food & 500 kgs plastic
》Monthly. 150000 kgs food & 15000 kgs plastic
》Yearly. 1800000 kgs food & 180000 kg plastic.
If more government departments like Factories & Boilers feel they could play their part in reducing wet waste and plastic from reaching the garbage bins then alot of our environment can be saved and 5th June can be really be celebrated as WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.
The potential departments who could play their part for 364 days to save the environment are :
☆ Food & drugs Department ,
☆ Labour Department ,
☆ Panchayat Department ,
☆ Environment Department ,
☆ Industries Department.
We have proved our effort in reducing wet waste and plastic through this pilot project.
Rest is the call Hon CM of Goa has to take.
Let's work togther [ irrespective of the authorities support, as they are mostly unable to take unorthodox decisions ] in saving our ENVIRONMENT, 364 days of the year and not only on 5th June.
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God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
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