Updated On: 21 September, 2022 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
From adopting no-plastic policy to practising waste management, Bhumi on bringing positive changes to film sets as her initiative Climate Warrior turns three

Bhumi Pednekar
A stubborn optimist — that’s how Bhumi Pednekar describes herself. It’s from this stubborn optimism that her nature conservation project, Climate Warrior, was born in 2019. The actor has used the social media initiative to raise awareness about the depleting natural resources and climate change, and host clean-up drives across the country. As the project turns three, she is proud to have made sustained personal choices to aid ecological conservation. “We have no choice, but to change our lifestyle. Otherwise this planet will become unliveable, and our future will be clouded by pollution and man-made waste,” she rues.
In the past three years, while Climate Warrior has amassed thousands of followers, Pednekar has been walking the talk on her film sets. On the set of `Durgamati` (2020), she carried her own cutlery, thus doing away with single-use cutlery, while she ensured that the unit of `Badhaai Do` (2022) followed a no-plastic policy. During the filming of her latest project `The Lady Killer` in Manali, the production team followed waste-management measures and cleaned up the venue every day after the shoot.