Guirdolim
As Goa celebrates its Liberation Day, the Village Panchayat of Guirdolim took a major step to liberate its inhabitants from the menace of plastic waste as the panchayat launched its door to door plastic waste collection drive.
A cycle with a trolley to collect the plastic waste from households and a metal cage to store the collected plastic till the contractor appointed by Goa State Pollution Control Board collects it was commissioned on 19th December 2014 with the parish priest of Chandor Church Fr. Saude Pereira blessing both the things.
Guirdolim Sarpanch Sonia Dias thanked Damu NIstani for giving the place to store the plastic and revealed that this was possible only because of the initiative taken by panchas member Balu Nistani.
She also thanked former Zilla Parishad Member Clafasio Dias for sponsoring the cage to store the plastic and Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott for sponsoring the cycle with the trolley.
The employee will go around the village on six days of the week collecting the plastic from households and also from the roadside. The panchayat members who will also try to accompany the person appealed to the people to co-operate and hand over only dry and clean plastic waste.
At a meeting of the garbage management committee held subsequently, it was decided to stick to only plastic waste collection initially while later on other waste including cloth, footwear, thermocol and glass could be considered.