Five students launch ‘drive’ against littering

The message was simple: Don’t like what you see? Don’t litter. “We wanted to target those who dispose garbage from their car windows,” says Vazifdar. “We wanted to create awareness about littering and since it is a problem for the whole city,we came up with this idea.”

The Kachra Katti car went from Worli to Breach Candy and back on September 23,raising many an eyebrow along the way. “At Worli Naka,we were stopped by some policemen who wanted to know what we were doing. They appeciated us when we told them and let us go,” Vazifdar says.

The group also took up another activity in and around their college; they secretly shot videos of people littering. “Whenever someone was about to litter,members of the group would surround the person,blow a whistle and shout,‘How can he/she chuck?’. With more members joining in,we get the person to dispose waste in the bin and promise not to litter,saying ‘Katti to Kachra’ into the camera,” he says.

Even policemen were caught littering by these students. The group also distributed chocolates to those who rightfully dumped garbage in the bin.