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Navi Mumbai village gets a toilet made of 1,000 plastic bottles
Updated On: 16 March, 2024 04:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Devanshi Doshi
Popular content creator creates an eco-friendly toilet in a village in Kalamboli, which is made from waste-filled plastic bottles that work as ecobricks
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Yohita Anil Waghe, Khidukpada resident; (left) Deepak Ramjanm Vishwakarma and Siddhesh Lokare outside the newly installed toilet at Khidukpada in Kalamboli on March 11; Vishwakarma poses with ecobricks, plastic bottles filled with waste. Pics/Sameer Markande
On February 23, content creator Siddhesh Lokare and Deepak Ramjanm Vishwakarma, founder and director of CreateTogether Foundation, gifted eight families residing in Khidukpada village, Kalamboli, a toilet made of plastic bottles. The duo completed the project within a week with a little help from the women of the village and volunteers from their individual communities.
“The first day, we had over 50 people volunteer for the cause,” Lokare said. The 27-year-old, who actively uses his social media reach to promote and initiate social projects, was inspired by a similar two-year-old project by Vishwakarma—a bench made of plastic bottles installed in Kalamboli’s Sector 8. While the families in Khidukpada have some public toilets, they are few in number. There is no hygiene, either,” the duo explained why they chose to make a toilet.
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