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MY SUSTAINABLE EFFORTS

NOPE but you all should know that PLASTIC IS NOT THE
NO TO POLYETHYLENE PROBLEM, IT’S HOW WE USE IT…

So now let me give you a deeper highlight on our team
NOPE.
• In the first meeting I met a few people, most of
whom I knew… I told them more about this initiative

and we did some activities such as reusing plastic
items to make new crafts, etc.
• Later on we started a small mission called “MISSION
TO RECYCLE”, and till today we the members of
NOPE have recycled 800+ plastic items that is ap-
proximately 8kg of plastic… and we are hoping to re-
cycle 1000+ plastic items soon.
• Our second meeting was inspired by the on-going
When is the first time you heard the terms ‘REDUCE’, plastic situation in Spain and therefore named the
‘REUSE’ & ‘RECYCLE’? Maybe in Primary School? And meeting “No Al Polietileno” which means No To Poly-
did you just learn them for the sake of gaining marks or Ethylene in Spanish. We enlightened the members on
have you ever applied them in your life? Don’t worry if the topic ‘Plastic situation in Spain’ and also declared
your answer is NO, cause if you had asked me the same the winners of a competition ‘PlastoCraft’.
question a year ago my answer would also be a big NO. • Our third meeting “Fǒu duì jù yǐxī” which again means

But after reading this make sure that in a couple of No To PolyEthylene in the Chinese language. We in-
months your ‘NO’ becomes a ‘YES’. formed our members about the plastic situation in
China and also conducted a debate on the topic
The first question most of my friends asked me after ‘Plastic Bags are hard to recycle’.
knowing about the NOPE team was “Are you jobless to • And this is not the end… and nor will it till we save
do all these?”, like making a committee, planning future these creatures from a MATERIAL which was AF-
projects, holding meetings and all that while already FORDABLE TO POOR; BUT BECAME AN ENVIRON-
having to do school work during Online classes. I still MENTAL DISASTER TO IT’S FUTURE.

hear this question a lot but at some point, most of you
will agree that we youth are more aware of the damages
taking place in our nature and hope to take action to
prevent it but what lacks among us is a small initiative.
And that is why NOPE is created, a small initiative
where people can bring their ideas and work out solu-
tions for the ongoing plastic situation.

How many of you actually think that plastic is the real
problem? Some people tend to misunderstand this

concept and are prone to tell a complete No To Plastic, Vaishnavi Anjanamurthy
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