UDUPI: Four Class 8 students from Morarji Desai Residential School in Bramhavar, inspired by an awareness talk on pollution and environment by their mathematics teacher, launched a drive and collected 4,000 waste plastic disposable pens.
“I was surprised when four students — Pooja, Sanjana, Harshith and Rakesh — approached me on Saturday with a trunk full of used plastic pens. They had meticulously collected discarded use and throw pens from each of the 400 students from the school during the last five months and kept them in one of the trunks allotted to them. They handed it over to me with a lot of hope that it would be recycled,” mathematics teacher Santhosh Kodi told TOI. Santhosh is a beach cleaning volunteer of the Clean Kundapura Project.
