Letter: Fun activity Bhagvan Mahavir University (BMU) turned into a passionate mission to save the environment of plastic waste after the architectural college developed an eco park full of sculptures and furniture made of non-biodegradable garbage.
Their initial plan to collect 1,000 waste bottles ended with a collection of 5,000 bottles which are quite large from where they developed 10 statues.
Now, they aim to use 10,000 bottles for more products.
“Not only is the plastic bottle empty but we use a bottle filled with waste plastic wrappers and polythene bags.
Through this we prevent so many plastic waste from polluting the environment,” Chaitali Shroff, headmaster BM College of Architecture.
The drive to collect blank plastic bottles begins by BMU’s Eco Club, led by Sanjay Jain.
In a short time the club collected nearly 5,000 bottles taken by the College architecture as a challenge to change waste into materials that can be reused with longer shelf life.
Immediately the designer team collaborated with students who were enthusiastic and crashing into successful ideas such as developing chess games, benches, hanging lamps, lights, bird feeders, and various other fun statues.
Students take assistance from the university engine engineering branch to develop metal frames for their projects.
“We use the metal scrap to develop these statues.
We are now trying to use metals that have a long life so that the statue can be used for a long time,” said Assistant Prof, Anand Parmar.
Artist Gajendra Majithia, who is known for developing various statues in the city, has helped students to design and implement projects.
“We try to work on statues that can be used in public places to create awareness.
Through this we want to encourage people to stop using plastic bottles,” Majithia added.
BMU continues its encouragement to collect plastic bottles, although this time it’s not empty but is filled with more household waste that is not degraded.
They ask for a donor to carry bottles with plastic wrappers, packages that are often discarded with carelessly.
Efforts are also made by the University to install statues made of waste in locations where people can see it and also get valuable messages to protect the environment.