Dr Sanjivini Sharma is founder of Kanpur Ploggers, an NGO that has been raising awareness about plastic pollution and cleaning the ghats of Ganga river in Kanpur , every Sunday for the last one year & prevented more than 10 thousand kilos of plastic and other pollutants from reaching Ganga . The trash is loaded by volunteers on garbage trucks & sent to waste management plant
Additionally, they also collect plastic packets from homes of 100 families and send them to a local recycle facility, where they are recycled. They have this recycled more than 30 thousand plastic packets and have designed a novel tree guard using the same recycled plastic which is being used for plantation activity around Ganga river.