[Arunvenkatesh Sathiyaseelan]

I am just thinking in my childhood we lived sustainably. At that time we don’t have plastics, we take a cloth bag to purchase groceries and the street vendors pack products on separate paper and gave us. There is no plastic use. We used to swim in a pond which is nonusable now because of sewage pollution and the main reason is tapped water in each house which loses the ownership over the lake by village people. Now lot of behavioral changes happened after globalization, people are moving faster and easily accessible materials one such change is single-use plastic. they purchase groceries in a plastic cover and street vendors gone: supermarkets emerged in all small towns, where they sell products packed in single use plastic. In my opinion, Any activities should be from the grassroots level, without the behavioral changes at grassroots level no changes will happen at large scale. As in the course rightly mentioned about the civil society organizations they are the major driving factors to take forward real changes on the ground.

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