A recent news in a local daily appreciated a man from Madurai named chinmayanandham . We all have studied and listened to so many lectures on “Say no to plastic” .But how many of us follow .Not even 10% . With so many problems like global warming , sea level rise , etc ., what do we do as a responsible citizen to help and save nature in the least possible way that we could ? I guess the answer would be - Nothing !!! . Even I would go with the same answer as we people don’t mostly care of what happens to the environment .
In such a scenario , I was really moved to see a news that a meat shop owner from Madurai has taken steps to make people avoid using plastic and he has actually succeeded in that .He had announced a special offer to all his customers , that four eggs and a discount of four rupees , will be given for those who buy meat in anything other than plastic .Initially his offer was two eggs and a two rupee discount , which was not welcomed by the localites as he expected .Being an environmentalist , he was more interested in creating awareness than in earning money .So he increased it to 4 eggs and 4 rs , discount . With this offer people have really started to avoid plastic and buy meat in some utensils .A great success for a noble man’s effort . He is also awarded by Cens - an environmental agency (please forgive me if the spelling is wrong) . Chinamayanandham’s goal is to get his idea to as many people as possible and control the usage of plastic and he has also stated that if all other shop owners follow such idea , Madurai will soon be free of polythene .
Best wishes to the great man’s goal . Lets do what we can do support people like him .
gud work done by him.. and i wish we al must avoid plastics!!
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