Ever approached an un-green stranger?

I really appreciate your efforts. Someone has to take a step. Even I am like you, except that in India to take such steps seems too far fetched.
Atleast In US people are more civil and would think twice before littering.
Suburbs of mumbai are so dirty , sometimes I don't understand how I am going to survive here. Especially in rainy season it is pathetic with potholes, garbage , floods, diseases. Driving is nightmare in monsoon and I don't take my car out from june to sept.
I wish people here take little steps towards improvement.

 

I too thought when you have so many garbage bins around, people wont litter.But it doesnt matter with some people.Even here in the US I see soda cans, broken beer bottles laying here and there on the lawn.To my utter shock was on July 3rd around 8 pm, a person from the 4th floor throwing a lighted cracker and just goes inside.My husband and I were sitting in the balcony watching with shock becoz parking lot was very nearby.

Talk about some pet owners.Oh my!!All the way poop and not at all worried @ disposing them in the nearby pet disposal cans provided all around.Apartment office keeps sending warnings after warnings.For sometime, they try to follow.

So individuals should understand their responsibilities.They may act like they follow but the next day, they may repeat the same.

 

We don't yell at strangers for messing things but when we go to the beach we spend the first hour or so to pick the litter and put it in the garbage cans.

It started as something that my kid's schools required and has become a tradition now. We do that for the first hour or so and then have fun at the beach.

Recently when we went to the Tirupati temple, they give prasadam in leaf bowls inside the temple and there were garbage bins kept to drop those leaf bowls but I noticed many of those dropped outside the garbage bin. It was so fulfilling to pick those all up and drop them into that bin. Many people were watching. Though it's not a big deal and there were employees to do that, I felt good to do that. I never thought I'd mention it ever and nor did I want to. I think it's the Lord that made me think of it now.

Other than some urge to help, I don't think I am a green buff. Yes, it does bother me to see people mess things up but it surely gets the better of people when they see us clean up after them. I don't do that everywhere but temples, beaches, and landmarks like the Taj, Niagara etc are where I feel the urge the most.

 

In india, the streets and compound walls are open to public to whatever they want. you cant question them. They can spit, they can pass urine, throw the cigars and put the garbage on anywhere.

But what i hate most is spitting pan parag. i hate people doing this. but I am helpless. But what i can do is keeping my place clean.

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