To revive the tradition of regular informative modules at the Bee Museum every month, a talk on Waste Management centred on the work being carried out by the Blue Warriors with 500 households in villages around Kotagiri. The Blue Warriors are a group of children who monitor and maintain source segregation of waste within four villages. This project was initiated by Arun Bellie, a local from Kotagiri who strongly believes that source segregation is the answer to our problems with waste. In all 40 persons from a variety of age groups attended this talk. The North Divisional Forest Officer of the Forest Department, Mr. S Ramasubramanian as well as the President and Vice-president of Hubbathalai Panchayat were in attendance. Individuals from Blue Mountains School, Monarch College, Inner Wheel, YWCA, Nilgiri Wildlife Association, NNHS members as well as other locals from Ooty were present. Various ideas on means of implementation were discussed as well and shall come into practice soon.
