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“Every year,our institutions at MET take up specific issues. This year,our focus was environment. The concept was given to us by Minali Thakkar,arts head of the ongoing Celebrate Bandra Festival. The installation will send out messages to reduce plastic waste,” said Sunil Karve,founder trustee and vice-chairman of MET.

The installation,of 38,000 mineral water bottles weaved into more than 100-ft long garlands and attached to a large fishing net,flowing down from the top of the MET Building resembles a gushing waterfall.

Karve said nearly 3,500 MET students,parents of primary school students of MET’s Rishikul Vidyalaya,faculty members and staff were involved in creating the installation. “The project was tedious. We had to collect nearly 40,000 plastic bottles for which we rummaged through garbage bins and the local raddhiwalla’s collection,went door to door asking people to hand over their plastic waste and even collected our own bottles meticulously. These bottles were then handed over to a small team of students and staff who made the installation.”

Santosh Salunke,who was in charge of the students’ team,said,“One of the biggest problems we faced was that we needed a lot of space while making the installation. We also realised how much space plastic bottles would take up if we put them together.”

Karve said there were planning to compress the bottles to make benches for their school grounds after the display. “We don’t want to throw away these bottles because that would set a bad precedent. Instead,we want to construct useful commodities with them,which we can use for years.”