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Cleanliness - Whose job is it anyway?

This Sunday - October 2, 2016 - marks the 147th birth anniversary of the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi. But even more significantly for us, it also marks the second anniversary of the formation of our volunteer group - We Mean To Clean. These two years have seen us go through various ups, and some downs; we have swelled in our number - but still only a small army on the ground. This sinusoidal journey has brought along with it a lot of insight on how to make our city clean - and in an attempt at sharing some of that insight, here we enlist some of the challenges we have faced over this time, as well as proposed solutions to those problems: 1. Littering Littering is probably the most well-known and visible problem of them all - widely discussed, but very rarely acted upon. The most common excuse that we have heard from people littering in general is that there is no dustbin nearby - it is as if the lack of a dustbin in their vicinity automatically rids them of any