The scent of the salty sea wafting through the air, your hair swept up in the wind, it’s bliss — that is, until your sandy feet encounter a plastic bottle… and then another. Garima Poonia went to the Andaman’s Neil Island in 2017 and noticed the lack of waste management on the streets, beaches and in the resorts of the tiny island. She went back last year, this time to change things.
With five beach cleanups and innumerable awareness programmes, The Kachrewaale Project is changing the way Andaman Islands is handling its waste. Read More
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Garima Poonia, the brain behind Kachrewaale Project, went to the Andaman’s Neil Island in 2017, and noticed lack of waste management on the beaches, resorts or even on the streets. This 26-year-old then dropped her studies at a university in the UK and devoted her time in environmental conservation, to make the Andaman Islands waste-free again.
Watch: A special report on India’s no-plastic campaign profiling an initiative in Andaman islands where the administration is cleaning the beaches and ecological surrounding involving local bodies, individuals and school kids. The important waste management initiative ‘Project Kachrewaale’, conceived by Garima Poonia in 2018, has since been actively encouraged and taken forward by the Andaman & Nicobar administration.
