Every year during Ganesh Visarjan,nearly 10-15 tonnes of Garland flowers are dumped into river Patalganga @ Rees . This waste does not only choke and pollute rivers and the organisms living in them, but also contaminates the water with pesticides and chemical fertilizers used to grow the flowers. Rotary club of Patalganga and Rotract club of Patalganga have initiated a flagship project of collecting this flower waste at river banks and avoid being thrown in river directly, during all 3 visarjan days. The collected waste flowers and garlands are then segregated and used to make compost. During 4 days of Ganesh Visarjan, we could collect nearly 10 tonnes of flowers waste and saved it from being dumped in river. We dumped all this Nirmalay into a pit and will convert this into compost which will be used later for gardening purposes. This was a small step taken to protect river from pollution and save our environment. It was highlighted in all news paper & channels