Problem Statement:
- How Can We Get People to Manage and Segregate Waste That Is Being Thrown On Roads Instead Of Dustbins?
Location of the problem:
The place is in between a street which leads l an apartment complex and my apartment. It has 2 shops and 1 house in between. As soon as you step outside you can see the garbage thrown on the road. The sides of the roads also have a lot of wild plants growing here.
Interview 1:
Name: Pravin
Gender: Male
Background Information:
He works in a roadside shop next to my apartments.
He has been working there for a week.
Q 1 – How long have you been working in the shop?
Ans – 1 week
Q 2 – How does the garbage affect you?
Ans – It affects his business, but he does not think that it affects it too much
Q – 3 What do you think that we can do to help solve the problem?
Ans – He think that even if you do want to help, you will definitely need help from the government. He also thinks that you need to be free to help.
Interview 2:
Name: Mohanna Sundari
Gender: Female
Background Information:
She lives in a house nearby. She has lived there for 35 years and is a parent.
Q 1 – How long have you lived here?
Ans – 35 Years
Q 2 – How does the garbage affect you?
Ans – It hasn’t affected her yet, but she thinks that there is a high chance of her family or her getting affected
Q 3 – What do you think we can do to solve the problem?
Ans – She thinks that we can create awareness to help. She thinks that the problems are caused by the road side shops nearby.
She thinks it is also because of the issues in the panchayat office and because there are less dust bins in the area.
She burns the waste to keep the area near her house clean.
Interview 3:
Name: Saraswathi
Gender: Female
Background Information:
She works in my apartment. She lives nearby.
Q 1 – How often do you use this road?
Ans – She uses the road daily
Q 2 – How do you think the garbage affects people?
Ans – She thinks that the germs in the garbage can cause a lot of diseases.
Interview 4:
Name; Chinakuti
Gender: Male
Background information;
He is the head of the Padur panchayat.
Q 1 – How is the garbage taken from the available dust bins?
Ans – It is taken via tractors and tricycles. They have a total supply of 3 tractors and 4 tricycles to pick up about 5 tonnes of garbage every day.
These are picked up at specific times
Q 2 – How do you think us students can help?
Ans – He thinks that we can help by putting up boards that inform people the timings of the garbage pickups.
He thinks that the majority of the littering is caused by people in rented houses or in hotels.
