Divider Plantation: In 2018, “WE” pioneered divider plantation in Aurangabad city by planting around 2500 trees on various dividers. The plantation of Indian native trees like Peepal, Neem, Shishum, and Karanj on dividers has many environmental benefits. Such trees act as oxygen generation hubs in the otherwise polluted roads filled with hazardous pollutants like Carbon Dioxide, Sulphur Dioxide, photochemical smog, and suspended particles. The trees cover both sides of roads, reducing the warming effect on roads and preventing global warming. Dividers are ideal places for such plantations as it does not block commercial visibility for businesses. “WE” faced resistance from the authorities citing problems with concrete roads, but they provided strong evidence that Indian native trees have a Tap root system that grows deep into the ground in search of water and does not spread laterally. The roots system expands only towards the source of water and nutrition and there are no chances of roots moving towards the concrete roads, which are already heated by the sunshine. Divider plantation in cities like Pune and Bangalore further supports this evidence.

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