Every music maniac in our country is aware of the Global citizen Festival held in Mumbai on November 19th, one can simply experience the adrenaline rush just by thinking about the presence of 88,000 music freaks at one place with legendary Coldplay centered.
But, what after the concert? One can just assume the massive quantity of garbage that’ll be left over after the mind blogging concert. Though all the possible measures were taken to celebrate the festival in a healthy and hygienic way, a minor void in implementation is enough to stain the output.
The preventive measures primarily include the ban of carry bags, edibles or bottles. However, the food and water will be served at the respective counters.
The massive crowd made it almost impossible to reach dustbins and threw their leftovers, which resulted in dropping down the paper packs and empty bottles right on at their place itself.
Netizens took the photographs of after-concert onto the social media and criticized the event saying that the output is “Contrary to the theme and idea of the sanitation and hygiene”.
Quickly after this photographs went viral on social media, the issue is shadowed by the good deeds of the volunteers.
Few Popular NGOs came forward aiming to restore the sanitation and hygiene of the grounds just like how it was before the festival.
Multiple activities were carried over by groups of volunteers, such as a lot of volunteers from the NGO Swachhalay indulged themselves in the cleaning activities. They removed the litter from the grounds accompanied by some non-volunteers.
They didn’t quit just after collecting the litter, the volunteers went ahead distributing the wastage to the respective NGO groups for the further treatment following the recycling.
Paper, plastic and metals were handed over to the ‘NGO Raddi Connect’ for recycling.
Organic waste is handed over to Organic Recycling Systems.
Shrutika Snehanath, a Global Citizen India spokesperson told media that the solid waste is being compacted and given to nurseries and the particulate matter will be converted into biogas which through a generator feed will produce electricity for BKC offices.
She further added
“NGO Robin Hood Army collected and re-distributed all the semi-perishable raw food left over from the Festival among underprivileged communities across Mumbai – from Colaba to Borivali and Thane.”
“Twenty volunteers collected all the leftover food, while 70 other volunteers distributed it among the needy in 16 different areas across the city on Sunday 20thNovember.”