Friends on a campaign to deal with milk packets 

Three students from PSBB School, T Nagar launch a drive to collect washed and dried milk covers

How do you snip the milk packet? Three Class VIII students from Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School, T Nagar are offering answers to question and many others in an attempt to encourage responsible disposal of milk packets.

The initiative was started recently by three friends – Akshath Rao, Keshav Krishna and Shreehari K, who call themselves Eco-Trio – as part of The Climator League, an event that requires participants to come up with solutions for existing environmental hazards.

The three had learnt in the classroom that seemingly innocuous and simple acts can have a hugely detrimental effect on solid waste management in the city and they came up with this idea after seeing many people around them cut the corners of milk packets the wrong way.

“Do not cut off its corners and add to the burden of recycling these miniscule pieces,” say the trio.

Even if one were to cut the packet, do it horizontally and in a transverse position. The milk packets should then be washed, dried and kept separately to be sent for recycling.

To educate residents, the three are taking up door-to-door campaigns in their respective streets in T Nagar with their parents also joining them.

During weekends, each of them makes it a point to cover 15 houses each where they distribute pamphlets informing residents on the do’s and dont’s of handling milk packets. They have also taken the campaign to Semmozhi Poonga and Pondy Bazaar where they draw the attention of the visitors and shoppers with their colourfully designed posters.