Let me fall if I must fall,The one I will become will catch me | Dr Sanjivini Sharma | TEDxMotiJheel

Inspiring life story Dr Sanjivini Sharma is founder of Kanpur Ploggers, an NGO that has been raising awareness about plastic pollution and cleaning the ghats of Ganga river in Kanpur , every Sunday for the last one year & prevented more than 10 thousand kilos of plastic and other pollutants from reaching Ganga . The trash is loaded by volunteers on garbage trucks & sent to waste management plant

Additionally, they also collect plastic packets from homes of 100 families and send them to a local recycle facility, where they are recycled. They have this recycled more than 30 thousand plastic packets and have designed a novel tree guard using the same recycled plastic which is being used for plantation activity around Ganga river. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx