Welcoming the  national campaign  launched against single-use plastic announced by the Hon. Prime Minister on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, Mata Amritanandamayi called for active support of the Prime Minister’s new initiative. “We should all support the Prime Minister’s campaign. Mother Nature has only ever shown us love and compassion, while we have just stomped all over her and kicked her in the chest. Now she has fallen ill. If we don’t mend our ways and recycle and stop being wasteful, she will have no choice but to eventually react,” she said in her message.

The Math has started phasing out single-use plastics in all its institutions. This is in addition to its continuation of its ongoing environmental programs, including tree planting, toilet construction for the poor, cleaning public spaces, and a new project, Amritavanam, for creating ‘compact forests’ in urban spaces.