People love to travel but hate to take care of the place they travel to. With increasing tourism more and more people are preferring to do road trips but forget to maintain sanctity of that place. They throw garbage at roads, mostly Cold drink bottles, Chips n chocolate packets etc.
Government tried on a very large scale to promote Swachh Bharat(Clean India). These days often you find in the news that the government has fined people heavily who throw garbage on tourist places. But All this is in vain if people don’t start treating the place they are travelling to as their own and start taking up the moral responsibility for keeping it clean.
To Promote this concept of Swachh Bharat, few students from Naggar village of Himachal(Manali) have started this initiative of creating and installing recycled dustbin on roads. During my recent visit to Naggar , I could see many recycled dustbins created out of plastic bottles of cold drinks installed at every 100 meters on the road. Students from Naggar wanted to show and give a message to tourists to keep their town clean.
And it’s impact could be seen also, on these roads, I didn’t see garbage on roads unlike in most places of Manali or any other tourist attraction.
Kudo’s to the Student of Naggar and a request to all travel lovers and enthusiasts to spread this message.
Always treat the place you go to as your own home. So that generations to come can enjoy the beauty of those places.
Yes @Exlporewithsingh often people forget to maintain sanctity of the place they travel to and I have seen this all over the world but I have to add that often I’ve questioned is it the tourists or is it the locals. Let me give you one example. When I was trekking through the Himalaya, and I have to add that I trekked some 600 km there, I frequently noticed a broken thong or part thereof left on the ground. However, during my many months in Nepal I didn’t see one westerner wearing thongs or flip-flops as they are called in some parts of the world, but I did see many Nepalese in them. Westerners wore trekking boots, it was the locals that wore the thongs. Interesting!!
@AdamGT I agree with you that both tourist and locals have to take care of their environment. I have also trekked to many places in Maharashtra and seen that both local and tourist who trek spread garbage over the places. But I still believe majority of it is from the tourist visiting those places. As they are the ones who carry plastic packaged food, drinks etc. Just a simple thing is required from every tourist instead of throwing stuff on road keep it your bag and throw it in dustbin when you return to hotel or wherever you are staying.
But yes I agree that everyone needs to be involved whether it’s tourist, locals or the government to keep the place clean.
Single use plastic ,yeah it happens almost all tourist destination here in indonesia also ,and so sad much of visitor less awareness about this . And this is serious issue .
Recycle is best option but of course we need action from everyone . We can’t wait anymore .
So thank you for your post we are not alone , together we do for earth better places .
@Exlporewithsingh it is a pity that in traveling or in everyday life people don´t care much for keeping places clean, Is it a lack of education? or it´s a lack of principals, or it is a lack of what…
@karinchavoll I think it’s combination of everything. It starts from education and having the feeling of thinking about the place you travel as your own. And having the moral responsibility of keeping it clean.
With various government initiatives and promotion of importance of cleanliness the effect can be seen in children studying at school and universities. It’s a slow change but with promotion of cleanliness in education will have the impact
Thank you for sharing your community’s initiative on cleaning the environment, I hope this movement can be spread wider to save our environment.
In addition to that, to keep Connect organized I am relabeling your post to Local Stories, it is where Local Guides shares stories from their community. For more details about topic on Connect, I recommend you read this article.
Thanks @AngieYC , for appreciating the initiative and the correction. I have joined recently, will go through the article mentioned by you and will try to keep my future post more organized
