Villapilsala visit, the complete story
Bindu and srijith you may have wondered about, the letter you got from the corporation, mercilessly denying our right to inspect the works at villapilsala (they have called it as factory, maybe i don’t know)
Actually this was the whole story.
We wrote a letter to the corporation , seeking permission to visit and inspect work at, vilapillsala plant, and if required to take certified samples. The letter was wrote on behave of nine of us who agreed to visit the facility.
But the replay was, denial, due to unknown reasons.
I was really busy with some election works ( I lied you that I don’t have any political affiliation, but i had some commitment, so i had to be with that). So I could not follow up it
Now today i visited the office of the information commissioner, and they assured that we have all rights to inspect It Under section 1- J (i). And they directed me. To give an appeal to the corporation secretary. (visit http://keralasic.gov.in/images/stories/pdf/rti-act.pdf Section 1 J (i). and in Malayalam http://keralasic.gov.in/images/stories/sic/circulars/extraordinary.pdf
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I visited the corporation office, and meet the US there, and he also re assured that we have all rights to inspect it. And take samples if needed .
I think it is some sort of delaying tactics, as there is some problems giving on around there. And any way, to proceed further, i need all those replay letters , asap.
so make sure to bring all letters from corpn.
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Now for the corporation officers, Sirs we have no intention do defame disregard our city corporation, we just need to use our rights to inspect works at the plant and take samples just to do some scientific studies. Under section 1 J(i) of RTI act. Since as it is denied we are forced to move appeal. And express due thanks for your kind coorpertion in this regard.
Regards.
May 2: Plastic pick-up from Zoo
And now the zoo venture ladies and gentlemen. It was a Saturday. Yeah for technical reasons we decided to make it Saturday this time. For the same technical reasons, we may change it back to Sundays from next time.
A few statistics before we start. Attendance: Very low: 8
Results: Very low: 2 funny comments.
Now about the day. The plan was to pick up anything that looked like plastic and dump it into our [sigh] last few trash bags. ‘An brothers’ Aneesh and Anil got us the permissions we’d need. So the entry was free.
Conceicao and her mom Bernadete were the surprise package we had – two Brazilians who enthusiastically joined us and picked up every little piece of plastic they saw.
Now certain volunteers confused the children who were visiting to see animals. So the kids ended up pointing at An bro 1 and saying “twee twee kurange kurange, kaattu kurange (here monkey monkey, forest monkey)”. Our leech killer An bro 1 became the monkey impersonator this time.
Srijith found the maximum number of plastic bottles. Two Tamil ladies kept asking An bro 1 about how he was going to sell this collection and make money. He said something and they laughed. No wonder – he tried Tamil. Ms Cris arrived at this point and used her expertise in Tamil to save the day – “no Aneesh was not a kid who was trying to run away with all the plastic and sell it. He was a volunteer cleaning up the zoo of its plastic to pass a message”. I am sure they understood it all.
We winded up soon and ended up as usual at the apple juice counter. That’s exactly the point when Ashith arrived, right on time for his 5:55 pm snacks (I hear he takes the next one as late as 5:58 pm). Conceicao kindly bought us all mango juice. Her mom took a lot of snaps all the way and was quite happy to be a part of it all. We talked with her and learnt about the stuff that she does. She is a social worker and also an art teacher. She visits so many places, and tries to learn about how things work there. She said good words about Trivandum.
All done we dumped our waste at the trash bins, not having too many other choices. Next was a brilliant plan suggested by, emm, well someone from the group, to see a brilliant movie. So 5 of us – Aneesh, Srijith, Ashith, moi and Manu went to see this Tamil movie called ‘Pataalam’. Aneesh seemed to be all smiles – now those who don’t know him may think he is clenching his teeth – but I am sure it’s a nice smile to thank the nice person who suggested this nice movie to him. Ashith took off every 10 minutes because he was finding the emotional content too hard to bear. Poor kid, he had his eyes red and his face moist. Manu seemed to be learning directorial techniques all the while. Srijith remained a quiet spectator, appreciating the beauty of it all in silence.
And that’s it folks. Another Tidy-Day over, but am afraid with few results. Nevertheless, we wont stop trying. So rake your heads and write in the forum about what we do next! Hurry!
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Your Share Of E-Waste
– by Srijith
When was the last time you tried to repair a broken mobile charger? I bet none of us will bother to repair it , but will try to get a new one just because of one reason- Its damn cheap! And you have added 10 gms of lead to your share of E-Waste
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To throw away , is a basic human behaviour that we’ve developed through our evolution. In the distant past everything we (Humans) used were made of plant or animal origin or non-processed natural materials like clay or rock. Thats when we developed the throw-away habit. But back then, it was not at all a problem as they will easily disintegrate to nature.Metals came to our life later and strong, long use products were developed. Production cost was higher and so people were more conscious in wisely repairing or reusing every product. But in the last few decades, we have grown in a very rapid pace and learned to make cheap alternatives to metals and clay. Plastic as we all know is the king among these. But what we are talking about is not about the ill effects of plastic. Its a known fact to every one and we have already discussed a lot about it here. I am talking about the production cost.
New technologies and innovations lowered the production costs and as a result the price came down for almost all consumer goods, especially the electronic products. You can get a calculator for 10 Rupees! In such a case, who will try to repair it once its faulty? To be frank, I wont! Its not feasible. But about 90% of any electronic product can be reused as a first grade material. In our example of calculator,
* Plastic casing can be converted epoxy pellets
* Lead and other metals ( in circuit board ) can be seperated by electrolysis and re used in manufacturing same product.
Electrolysis is ofcourse a costly process which cosumes some energy. But in large scale process, it will be much cheaper when compared to cost and energy spend in Mining and extraction.
We as an end user cannot do any such things , but what we can do is make our manufacturers do it. My inspiration to this post is an article about Nokia’s interest in recycling mobile phones. As they say in their site,
If every Nokia user recycled just one unused phone at the end of its life, together we would save nearly 80,000 tonnes
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Think of it in a much broader sense. If every electronic manufacturer in the world starts recycling their products, we can reduce mineral/metal mining by 95%. Less wastes and less pollution. ( Mining is a heavily polluting process ) .
I came across a site which claims they will pay you for sending damaged electronic products. ( http://www.techshop.in/store/ecycle.php ) . It may be a marketing gimmick , and I am not sure how they ‘recycle’ it. It may end up as a downcycled product in a chinese factory. But if they truly recycle it, then its a perfect start. Like some one said in our initial meetings, if there is a profit, people will be interested in properly disposing waste. (techshop.in actually gives you a gift voucher worth 125 Rs which can be used in their shopping site).
Now think of this next time , before you throw away a damaged e-product.
Socrates, Jesus, Gandhiji did it… now its our turn
– by Bindu Philip
Today I woke up at 7. As usual I went to my backyard to have a look at my plants, when a strong stench came to my nose. The smell was soo strong that it could not be avoided. Just near to my house a Tamil family is living (they can speak Malayalam also).The house is so near that we can hear it even when they whisper! I said to a lady there that some smell is coming from their house. The lady said that the smell is from the fish heads she threw on their compound!! I was shocked to hear this How can she tell this without any guilty feeling!! Cant she understand that the smell is disturbing us!! She said that as she didn’t hear the waste collectors’ whistle she just threw it out!!
I knew them already because if I am not in my house, they would burn plastic and if I am there they will give it to the waste collector. And the lady used to throw plastic bags with fish in it. And I used to take it to my home and give it to the waste-collector. Nothing new I felt about that incident. Anyway, I decided to go there and collect it again this time. I was shocked to see a big cover full of fish heads!! I took that cover to my home, removed all the fish head. At that time my mother came there and she saw what I did!! My God, she created such havoc that the whole neighborhood came to know about this!!
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But all these didn’t stop me from going there again to dig a pit to cover those fish heads. I washed that cover before keeping it inside the waste bucket in my house-compound.
My mother said that this cannot be allowed because diseases will spread from that. I said 3 years back I was ill with chikungunya from the waste thrown all over the same neighborhood compound by another family (many families came there to live on rent). That was the reason I started cleaning realizing that whether the waste is on our compound or on the neighbor’s compound, the end result is disease to all!
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But I said finally whatever others think about me, whatever rumors others spread about me, even if they mock me or call me insane, I will continue to clean my surroundings. I remember now the dengue outbreak at medical college and surroundings.-the reason for which is the improper disposal of trash all around the medical college compound-and the sufferers are the people who live in the neighborhood!! High School Musical 2
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I am sure that nobody is going to understand us but that doesn’t mean we should stop doing whatever we are feeling is right. From time immemorial those who are on the path of truth suffered a lot. Socrates was killed because he said the truth. Jesus was killed because he said what is true. And in India Gandhiji was killed because of the same reason!!
So friends whatever others think about us we should continue to do what it takes us to our goal-a tidy city!
Apr 26 Kallar forest trip
– by Cris
Been wanting to write a report for long. But decided to make this a blab-entry.
April 26 2009. Morning came. Twelve TidyCity members woke up from their Sunday beds looking longingly at the cots they left behind. But what waited for them was a much bigger haven so with no qualms, our heroes and some gorgeous heroines (ahem) left their houses.
Sharp on time – there was noone but the bus. Late on time, there were a few latecomers waiting for the more late. ‘The late and the later’ joined together at last to start that wonderful trip. Bindu, WWF worker Mr Sivakumar and family joined us on the way.
Bus journey to the forest was not quite active. Unlike normal people, TidyCityers were most active at the end of the day – so our return trip was Lord-love-a-duck!
But the to-journey was limited to Anil’s Ray-Ban sunglasses, Sreenath’s KF jokes, Cris’s amazing camera skill exhibition and a 7-month old darling’s stunts J. This little bundle of joy continued to be the major highlight of our trip all the while.
We reached a small eat-out our guide and tutor Sivakumar Sir took us to. We all had coffee and tea – I think. I am confused – we ate too many times.
From there we packed off to reach our beloved most-awaited forest. Now as I see the photos taken, I am surprised that I took it in like just another place. What a wonderful place to be in… just walking there or sitting there doing nothing for hours is enough to fill a whole life of experiences. But then I cant tell it in words – how it felt – like I told in the end when giving feedback. You had to be there to know what it felt like – no one can tell it to you.
For me, I cant decide what I loved most – was it all that green that covered you from all sides – or the streams that kept flowing touching my legs on its way, – or all those bird chirps and leaf rustles you get accustomed to in a matter of minutes – just like you got used to living in the midst of car horns and bus brakes all day long in cities. Only difference is you get to come in touch with a 5-letter word all those car horns and brakes deprive you of: p-e-a-c-e.
Walking is something I am acknowledged to be an expert of. And natural settings have always been an area of comfort. But I ended up the slowest to move across all those wet rocks and slippery stones. That was lame. I grudgingly admit at this point that I wish I had legs like Aneesh or Anil, both of whom seemed to fly as they took each big rock one step at a time. One day, I am telling you, one day I am going to beat them at a rock climbing expedition. Without bribing.
But I am someone who gets fascinated by anything that remotely brings an aura of forest or any natural setup for that matter. So a whole jungle full of green leaves, pebbles, streams over rocks is more than what I could ask for in 10 lives! The best part in such trips is sitting there doing nothing. We got to do that too with Mr Sivakumar’s help. We meditated! Yes believe it or not – we the bunch of hooligans that we looked like – sat in the midst of that heaven, listening to the birds, the breeze, the waters and our breathing – thoughts of what-nots crossing our mind – “a connection” in Jay’s words forming within us. This is where we came from. This was us. The real us.
I will not try to explain how it all went. But I am sure none of us are going to forget the time we spent head to toe dipped in pure water – the purest we could get according to Mr Sivakumar- that flowed across the rocks. We splashed water at each other, we sang songs together, played water games and went as low as possible in terms of age, and all that was considered “dignified”.
The ‘An’ brothers (that’s what I am calling Aneesh and Anil from now – An bro 1 and 2) seemed the most active of all. They had rocked on a swinging twig on the way – which I secretly plan to pursue on a future secret trip. They kept leading the way and Anil specialized in making the loudest noises. I am sure he has a name for it. He later produced it when we played Anthakshari though he claims it was singing.
Anil’s Ray-Ban in the meanwhile became a hero as every member of the team took turns wearing it, and getting every small fragment wet. But the hero managed to live till eod.
Lunch came. It was great but some of us had the misfortune of confusing a mulaku (chilly) for a bigger grain of rice and having our eyes filled and throats burned. Sniff. Post-lunch, we sat around and talked about TidyCity future plans and discussed bringing a song in.
Next venue after a lot of confusion was decided to be the golden valley. Nothing much about it but then again it was another piece of heaven that fell on earth, when you compare it with the rush-n-hush cities we come from. We sat on some steps in front of “the valley” and talked about TidyCity. Mr Sivakumar told us about other trips he has had and about how our group could do more.
Final stop after having coffee and settling bills was a ‘Thooku Palam’ (Hanging Bridge) which should be named Thoongiya paalam – because it was in no condition to be used. Or so someone said. It still looked lovely in that setting – stretching lazily over a stream that flowed in no haste or hurry. We took our places in rocks and talked about our experience in forest. I couldn’t express it since like I still feel, words are simply not enough to tell your thoughts all the time. This was one such time, at least for me it was.
This was when we had our second leech attack. An brother 1 killed a leach. The first attack was when Jay brother killed a leech.
Feedback done, we were on our way back. The trip was entirely loud and cheerful! Enthusiast-award of the day undoubtedly went to Anil. I had no idea he was so talented in the art of creative-noise-making. But really, its when we have people like that, that such trips become more alive. Singing and brawling filled the bus.
Mr Sivakumar told us that we were a good group – we didn’t buy extra plastic bottles for one! And he said he went on a semi-educational line since we were bound to see things for ourselves and learn ‘em. And then about the total absence of animals, he said thats what happened when bigger troops turned up. Visibility problem, I think its called?
Take-back-home from the trip is a Kings’s wand that An brother 1 found somewhere. Seeing that Mr Sivakumar told us “When you leave forests, you should leave nothing but footprints behind you and take nothing but memories”.
Well said.
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