Summary:
Initiate conversationsWhen a community is seeking to go zero-waste, it has to first approach the issue as a community. COUNTDOWN TO ZEROThiruveedhi Amman Koil Street Residents Association (TAKSRA), which covers over 80 families, shares its “7I Formula” for promoting a zero-waste lifestyle in the community. Introduce monitoringWhen the residents’ association promoted the use of cloth bags and other eco-friendly alternatives to plastic, there were still a few who would shop using plastic bags. Initiate discussionsWhen a community network is in place, the next step involves brainstorming for ideas and sifting through them, with debates. But the bins in the street were still choked with plastic and other trash, dumped not by residents but by passersby..