Are you clean ?.I am not asking if you had taken bath , brushed teeth,made your bed etc...every one of us are clean that way.We make sure we keep the place we live spotlessly clean.What about the roads? Be it anywhere in Chennai..we have spotted so many places where we just throw away the garbage just like that and why is that ? Many people say are we the only ones doing it ?...No, we are not but that doesn't mean we can either.You go to a movie theatre and when the movie ends almost all the places beneath the seats are full of garbage.Inspite of the theatre folks giving 1000 and odd instructions to throw them away in specific cans...Another scenario is the most common one "THE BEACH".Be it Marina or Bessy...I myself have done beach cleaning back in college days..God forbid the things we find there...the common parks like vandalur zoo and guindy park face these common issues...another scenario is the ones which we face in street ends or road ends...every now and then in Chennai we find a pyramid of garbage piled up..in street ends.....we are not bothered about anything else ....but we just throw the garbage into the streets because we want to keep our house clean...but don't want our country to be clean.We don't want to take responsibility for that..Is this what we were taught in school days ? We throw things randomly out because our neighbors does it...a very common Indian excuse.All my life I have lived in a dirty house...my grandparents were sick all the time...my mom used to work always ,all days ..she had to cook for us..take care of them..take care of me...being a single mom cleaning was the last thing she wanted to do...seeing all this from childhood I have become a clean freak...It makes me sick to see my country like this unclean.Imagine the garbage collectors ...imagine how difficult it will be for them to work...we are just making their job difficult...I have been following simple tips which I have listed below...if you have anymore tips to be added please feel free to add it below ....it might be helpful for someone reading this...
1.Carry a recycable garbage bag wherever you go.Be it theatre , temple, beach anywhere...So that when you eat anything...you can wipe it all off with tissues...and put everything in the garbage cover and throw it in the nearby dustbins which are found almost everywhere in Chennai...
2.Have some old newspapers with you.Sometimes some things needs to be wrapped and then thrown away...to avoid smell and other such things
3.Have your own water bottle with you this way we avoid buying plastic bottles and we don't tend to thrown them away in mid ways or leave it in the sand to consume...
4.If you are a morning person take your garbage bag and go for a walk throw it in the large bins in the main road... challenge yourself that u will follow it for 30 days...and then continue doing the same..if you have a bin just outside your house take your kid along with you and show them how you throw the garbage... This way they see and learn.
5.Avoid tissues when you have water.Instead of using tissues after eating anything on road ....if you are accessible to water wash your hands with water.If you are traveling reuse an old mineral water bottle fill it up with pipe water and have it with you always for emergencies...to wash face...to clean hands etc ...
6.If you go to temples ..please do not put the kumkums and vebudhis all over the temple walls...take some bits of paper with you ...put those kumkum and vebudhis in it give it to your fellow neighbor as Prasad and please avoid writing in your name,class ,roll numbers, your gotra etc in temple walls.
7.Take your own cloth bag wherever you go instead of getting plastic covers...and again they end up in the ditch...
8.if you are throwing away any old clothes or chappals or even notes which still have pages in them...first of all try not to...in case you do...keep them in a separate cover and keep them aside it could be useful for someone..
9.If you are eating lunch in food court have a tissue and clean the area after you eat there is nothing wrong in doing that..
10.when travelling always having a paper cover or Recyclable plastic cover with u if ever you have vomiting sensations..
11.If you have Tamil calendars in home use those papers to wrap things like bubble gums , the nails you bites...the chutney that fell on your shirt etc.
1.Carry a recycable garbage bag wherever you go.Be it theatre , temple, beach anywhere...So that when you eat anything...you can wipe it all off with tissues...and put everything in the garbage cover and throw it in the nearby dustbins which are found almost everywhere in Chennai...
2.Have some old newspapers with you.Sometimes some things needs to be wrapped and then thrown away...to avoid smell and other such things
3.Have your own water bottle with you this way we avoid buying plastic bottles and we don't tend to thrown them away in mid ways or leave it in the sand to consume...
4.If you are a morning person take your garbage bag and go for a walk throw it in the large bins in the main road... challenge yourself that u will follow it for 30 days...and then continue doing the same..if you have a bin just outside your house take your kid along with you and show them how you throw the garbage... This way they see and learn.
5.Avoid tissues when you have water.Instead of using tissues after eating anything on road ....if you are accessible to water wash your hands with water.If you are traveling reuse an old mineral water bottle fill it up with pipe water and have it with you always for emergencies...to wash face...to clean hands etc ...
6.If you go to temples ..please do not put the kumkums and vebudhis all over the temple walls...take some bits of paper with you ...put those kumkum and vebudhis in it give it to your fellow neighbor as Prasad and please avoid writing in your name,class ,roll numbers, your gotra etc in temple walls.
7.Take your own cloth bag wherever you go instead of getting plastic covers...and again they end up in the ditch...
8.if you are throwing away any old clothes or chappals or even notes which still have pages in them...first of all try not to...in case you do...keep them in a separate cover and keep them aside it could be useful for someone..
9.If you are eating lunch in food court have a tissue and clean the area after you eat there is nothing wrong in doing that..
10.when travelling always having a paper cover or Recyclable plastic cover with u if ever you have vomiting sensations..
11.If you have Tamil calendars in home use those papers to wrap things like bubble gums , the nails you bites...the chutney that fell on your shirt etc.
