NOIDA: To discourage the use of single-use plastic or thermocol plates for community events, the RWA of a housing society in Noida launched an utensil bank that lends dishes, spoons and glasses free of cost to the residents for holding social gatherings and bhandaras. The RWA of Century Apartments in Sector 100 also launched similar banks for clothes, books and cloth bags.
The book bank contains about 1,000 books even as about 100-150 are donated everyday. These books are related to competitive exams like the civil services, engineering and law, apart from academic and children’s books. Exchange of books is also allowed in the bank as per individual requirement. Similarly, the clothes bank contains unused clothes for use by people belonging to the economically weaker section.
