JODIE UNDERHILL:“It was still shocking, and it is still shocking to me after three years.”
Miz Underhill learned about waste control by cleaning up garbage while taking part in other volunteer projects. But soon enough she formed her own group, Mountain Cleaners.
JODIE UNDERHILL:“I just decided to start my own thing. My first clean-up was pretty ambitious. We had over a hundred volunteers.”
The young Englishwoman says the Indian media started calling her “Garbage Girl.” And she says she was pleased with the name, not insulted.
FAITH LAPIDUS:Since two thousand ten, Garbage Girl and her Mountain Cleaners have been collecting and cleaning up waste at the Triund camp. Thousands of visitors pass through this area in the Indian Himalayas each year. And many leave unwanted evidence of their visits – papers, bottles, all kinds of garbage.
The volunteers work just below clouds that seem to sit on the mountaintops. After they collect the garbage, they load bags of it onto mules. The animals then take it down the mountain.
Miz Underhill says objects that can be recycled are given to local workers, who can make money from them. Material that cannot be re-used goes to a container specially designed to hold waste. Before the Mountain Cleaners arrived, the garbage would have been thrown down the mountainsides. Or it might have been burned, polluting the air.
Miz Underhill says the work is very hard. But she praises the group’s efforts as a wonderful experience. She says she treasures the time around their campfire in the Himalayas.
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