Used cold drink bottles to light up Gurgaon streets

New Delhi: In a bid to light up Gurgaon’s darkest streets, a soft drink company announced the launch of its “Liter of Light” programme in the area. 

The project promises to bring about a huge change by reusing soft drink bottles and turning them into solar powered light bulbs.

The lighting solution has been implemented in eight locations across the Gurgaon-Sohna Road, Jharsa Road in Fazilpur village, Sector 15, Khandsa Road, Biodiversity Park, Sector 31, Sector 39 and some other areas.

The initiative, also supported by the municipal corporation of Gurgaon, will lead to a reduction in the total amount of energy consumption in these areas as the lights being used are solar powered light bulbs, Pepsi said in a statement on Friday.

Created with used pet  bottles, these lights are made of plastic filled with bleach and water and fixed to poles refracting sunlight during the daytime.

“Pepsi is committed to improve the lives of the communities within which we operate. This Diwali, we attempted to make the streets of Gurgaon safer and helped add more hours to a day. ‘Liter of Light’ is the truest celebration of Pepsi’s iconic bottles and we look forward to scaling up the programme in the coming years to add more brightness to lives across the nation,” said Raj Rishi Singh, the director of marketing at PepsiCo India.