Hi Robin,
It is always our endeavour to support the genuine causes for the betterment of Goa including Goa's environment.
The links to the item posted on Goa's favourite and a Goan expatriate's pride,
Gulf-Goans' e-Newsletter initiated by http://www.goa-world.com Team in 1994, are as
follows:
www.24x7updates.com/ News-Headlines-India-start-1160.html
All the best.
Uly Menezes & Gaspar Almeida
& the www.goa-world.com Team
From: Robin Viegas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May 26, 2005,
Hi,
Thanks for your response. Yes I read most if not all the news items posted on Gulf Goans. It is the ownly way that sitting in Bombay I get to know what is going on in Goa.
Could you give me the URL of Indo-Asian News service so that I could keep them informed on this problem. Thanks.
My sister owns the field (Survey No: 77) opposite Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim. Taj is using a plot (Survey No: 99) (in Communidade property) to dispose of all its garbage. They are now using vermiculture to convert all kitchen waste into manure. The problem about the non bio degradable garbage in the field did not exist before Mathias Plaza came up. In fact my sister has caught staff from the complex dumping garbage in the field on a number of ocassions. Once she even spoke to Mr Mathias outside his complex gate about this problem. At that point he said suitable corrective action would be taken. But this till date has not been done.
In this connection I have written to Navhind Times, O Herald & The Goan Observer with copies to Mr. Mathias. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this particular problem is resolved & hopefully people will come forward & do something to resolve the burning problem on disposale of all forms of plastic, metals, glass, etc. Also more people will come forward & use vermiculture to convert all kitchen waste into manure in their back yard instead of sending it of to the dumping ground.
Once again thanks for all your help.
Regards,
Robin Viegas,
Now on holiday in Goa.
Hi Robin,
Good to know that our selective items posted on Goa's only e-Newsletter
Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter is useful to you.
Check it at Indo-Asian News Service.
We always attribute the source and/or the sender's coordinates.
Your wrote: Apparently this resort (Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim) dumps all its garbage including kitchen waste, used sanitary napkins, etc across
the road in a field which is at a lower level than the road,
We are positive that this area has been used as a dump (and the villagers of Candolim-Sinquerim-Calangute has been taking it easy, since the Taj has been erected) in the late 1970's!
Enjoy your holidays in Amchem Goa!
Should you need any assistance in mobilizing resources for this environmental hazard cleaning, let us know and will support your campaign.
Regards/www.goa-world.com
Robin Viegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:May 25, 2005,
Dear Mr. Almedia,
I have been read the article about 'Green Goa Works' & had forwarded it to my sister who happens to live in Sinquerim right next to 'Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim' mentioned in the article so that she too could follow the lead given by this resort.
Apparently this resort (Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim) dumps all its garbage including kitchen waste, used sanitary napkins, etc across the road in a field which is at a lower level than the road, so it cannot be seen by residents ,visitors etc unless one is at the edge of the road & looking down. In the process it is slowly destroying the environment.
This morning I had been to site & clicked snaps of the garbage. If you like I could forward them to you by email after I return back to Bombay.
Could you please give me the site from where you picked up this article so I could also keep them abrest of what is happening at 'Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim'.
Incidently while in Goa, I have noticed garbage especially plastic (pet bottles, bags,etc.) thrown every where. Every tourist spot is littered.
One cannot expect the goverment to take care of this menace. It is high time the printed media sensitise every goan on the need to segregate garbage bio degradable (kitchen waste, etc) & non bio degradable (plastics, glass, metals ,etc). In Bombay it is The Indian Express which has been carrying out a crusade on this problem. Were it not for the IE, I too would not have been sensitised on this burning issue.
Regards,
Robin Viegas,
11 Framps Villa, C S T Road, Kalina, Bombay 400 098.
Now on holiday in Goa.
>Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:47:20 +0000
>From: goaworldtoday
>Subject: [Gulf Goans] "Green Goa Works" shows the way
>>Original-recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Goan greens promote waste management:
>If protests, petitioning and campaigns covering decades don't seem to >bring in the desired results, what does a group of environmentalists >do? In Goa, they form a company.
>Green Goa Works is a private firm set up here by prominent
>individuals who have long been associated with environmental causes.
>A not-for-profit undertaking registered a year ago, it has only now
>come out to talk about its work - treatment of solid waste through
>environment-friendly technologies and management of domestic sewage.
>Nationally-noted fashion designer Wendell Rodrigues is the company's >chairman.
>Its managing director is Captain Leo Lobo, a retired seafarer linked >with groups like the People's Movement for Civic Action.
>Other directors of this unusual company include environmentalist
>Claude Alvares, who set up base in Goa in the 1970s and helped create >a generation of young environmentalists here, and three prominent >local green-architects Sarto Almeida, Kamlakar Sadhale and Dean D'Cruz.
>"This company was registered after its promoters felt that unless
>technically competent people and eminent citizens of civil society
>came forward to assist the authorities, problems relating to garbage management and sewage will only exacerbate," said Lobo.
>In a relatively affluent, middle class-dominated state of 1.4 million
>people - visited by a tourist population one-and-half times its
>population - garbage management has been a serious concern here in recent years.
>Goa has changed sharply from a low-waste society to one where
>plastics and litter pollute large areas, including hillsides.
>Said Claude Alvares, "It has been apparent to the Goan public for
>some time now that neither the government nor local authorities,
>including the municipal councils, are serious about the garbage
>issue."
>Green Goa Works argues that municipal councils are still ill-equipped to deal with garbage in an environment-friendly manner. Most resort to simply burning or dumping the garbage, despite the environmental consequences of such measures.
>It says it is working on two useful technologies - Effective Micro-
>organisms (EM) and the processing of garbage through earthworms.
>Some small hotels in Goa have started converting to EM for cleaning toilets, kitchens and sewage pipes. These include the Caritas Complex in Panjim and Verem Villas at Verem.
>EM-based solutions are also being used at the Panjim market and the Mapusa fish market to treat the waste of the Sonsodo garbage dump in South Goa, and for the rehabilitation of Dempo Mining iron-ore site at Bicholim, about 40 km from here.
>"This microbial solution based on benign micro-organisms is not only effective but far cheaper than the deadly commercial agents available in the market, including phenyl," Lobo said.
>Ivo Costa, of Goa's major fish and meat processing industrial unit
>Costa & Costa, said his company had completely converted to EM treatment of all its wastes and for general cleanliness of its
>factory premises.
>"This also allows the company to earn from its waste, while it
>earlier paid the municipal council to collect and dump it," he said.
>EM was used to control problems of septic tank overflow and bad odour at Father Agnel's Ashram Polytechnic at Verna, according to Green Goa Works.
>Using earthworms is also bringing in positive results. For the first
>time the state has more than 22 earthworm bins - from small to
>extremely large - for a variety of users.
>One vermicomposting unit is at Kamat Gardens, the first modern
>housing colony that processes its own garbage and uses the
>vermicompost for the lawns.
>Some of it is given back to residents to maintain potted plants in
>their flats. The Kamat Gardens unit generated Rs.3000 worth of
>compost from the first of its seven bins last month, Green Goa Works said.
>Mathias Portofino Park Plaza in Sinquerim is currently constructing a unit for its entire complex. Most of these are small hotels in a state where big players and global chains dominate. But Green Goa Works sees the initial results as encouraging.
>"A significant number of Goans are putting up individual chamber bins for treating household garbage. Green Goa Works is signing
>maintenance agreements to ensure that the units continue functioning through weekly visits," said Lobo. (Indo-Asian News Service)
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