Morung Express News
Mopungchuket | May 21
The Greensight Project in association with the Youth Department of Mopungchuket Baptist Church and the Mopungchuket Students’ Union (MALT) will be organizing a cleanliness drive at Mopungchuket village on Saturday, May 26 as part of The Himalayan Cleanup.
Regarded as one of the cleanest villages in Nagaland, Mopungchuket has a long history of undertaking measures to keep the village clean. However, the cleanup exercise scheduled for May 26 will be a first of its kind in the village in that the volunteers on the day will not only be cleaning the village by collecting the waste and dumping them but will also be auditing the garbage with the objective of understanding what constitutes the trash and how much.
Collecting of waste, Segregation and analysis of the waste collected, volume analysis, brand audit, disposing recyclable waste to scrap dealers and finally disposing the ultimate discards will be the exercise that the volunteers would be doing on May 26.
Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI), a platform of 12 mountain states and hill districts in the Indian Himalayan Region advocating for sustainable mountain policies is anchoring The Himalayan Cleanup under the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ across the Indian Himalayan Region. Members of IMI are also active members of Zero Waste Himalaya (ZWH) which is a pan-Himalayan (Bhutan, India, Nepal) collective of zero waste enthusiasts.
The Himalayan Cleanup will be carried out simultaneously on May 26, 2018 across the mountain states of India following a uniform guideline and is being envisaged as an exercise that goes beyond cleanup and transport to the dumpsite. In Mopungchuket, 40 volunteers of The Greensight Project had initially confirmed for participation but with the support of the Youth Department of Mopungchuket Baptist Church and the students’ union (MALT), more than 100 volunteers are expected to join the cleanup exercise.
Meanwhile, The Greensight Project has instructed the volunteers to bring their own water bottles, provisions for refilling of which would be initiated by The Greensight Project.
