COIMBATORE, Aug 5: The Coimbatore City Corporation today created a new Guinness World Record by conducting the "largest recycling session" to teach the participants on how to reduce, reuse and recycling waste.
A total of 13,487 persons, including women, school and college students attended the event, which was aimed to involve the residents to do source segregation and recycling.
Pravin Patel, who is the Adjudicator of the 45-minute event, issued Guinness World Record Certificate, recognising that the civic body has successfully conducted recycling lesson and created a record.
"The topic selected by the Coimbatore Corporation is unique and not done by any cities in the world so far, " Patel announced.
The participants were given a barcode, which was recorded to an app (cell phone app) at the entrance to register the total number of participants.
As many as 28 cameras recorded the entire event and power point presentation made to the participants through large screens at the venue.
Participants took a pledge that they will start reducing, reusing and recycling the waste in their daily life and handover waste to the sanitary workers after source segregation as organic, inorganic and hazardous.
The City Mayor P Rajkumar inaugurated the event in the presence of District Collector Archana Patnaik, Corporation Commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan and Police Commissioner AK Viswantahan.
"The event has been organised as part of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's vision 2020 to make the city garbage free," Rajkumar said.
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