Additional awareness was raised with 455 families living in floating houses who agreed to stop thrashing in the river if aid was provided in the form of iron rubbish drums for burning thrash, which have now reached 325 pieces and greatly helped to reduce the volume of garbage entering the river (estimated volume of 36 billion cm3 per year for 325 households alone). Because the burning of small amounts of garbage is also not an ideal solution, RASI is looking into more long-term sustainable solutions with the villages that don’t have access to land. At least the habit of trashing plastics into the river has been changed.

Reusable diaper trial studies are also being conducted with selected  20 ‘baby’ households from 10 villages inside the PA, which previously discarded plastic diapers directly in the river.