Noble initiative to save environment

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
PRESS Release by

Nisha Kunju (Administrator & PRO : PAWS-Mumbai)

Kirti D Shah giving first recycle flex bag to
Environmentalist & PAWS-Mumbai
Founder Sunish Subramanian Kunju 

Bhandup resident Kirti D Shah has come out with an innovative concept of re-using the flex-vinyl banners which are found discarded after its use.  He has arranged to use the flex material to prepare carry bags for his customers.  He has a "farsan" shop named Swastik Farsan at Bhandup, where till now he uses to provide a cloth or paper bags or plastic bags above 50 microns to his customers. As per the Municipal guidance to the shopkeeper have to officially charge for the carry bag.  He felt that daily there are scores of political and commercial banners which are freely discarded or carried away by the civic authorities who get wasted, he thought to better use rather than let it be discarded at some municipal dump and pollute the environment.  

After making such bags from the wasted flex banners, he gifts it to the environment protection and animal welfare NGO - Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS-Mumbai).  PAWS–Mumbai works for the conservation of environment and for the well-being of the mute and helpless stray animals.  This way PAWS-Mumbai is able to gather funds from the sale of such flex bags which are sturdy, aesthetic, washable and re-usable too.  

Kirti D Shah says that "During festival season we shopkeepers are forced to give free bags to their customers. But now since it has become compulsory to charge the customers for the bags provided, I charge them for these flex bags and donate the amount to PAWS-Mumbai or directly handover these flex bags to the NGO for sale so that they too are able to generate funds for their noble work.

  

Secretary and Founder member of PAWS-Mumbai welcomed this initiative of Mr Kirti D Shah and feels that it is a step in the right direction.  It serves to generate funds, provide bags to the customers, curbs wastage of costly flex material and also saves our mother Earth from pollution. He further added for flex-vinyl banners scrap we will approach to Ad Agency & Political Leader’s too.

PAWS-Mumbai has requested citizens to support such environment-friendly initiatives in whichever way possible by using disposal bags like cloth and also flex bags which is recycled. To order recycle flex bag citizen can call PAWS-Mumbai on 25968314 or 9833480388.

For more information & detail please call

Sunish Subramanian Kunju (Secretary : PAWS-Mumbai) on

PAWS-Mumbai helpline +91 9833480388 or Personal Cell +91 9892179542

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