Sep 19: International Coastal Clean Up
– Cris
TidyCity tied up with WWF to do a clean up of Shanghumugham beach today.
On the occasion of International Coastal Clean Up Day, members of TidyCity clubbed with WWF in their event of a clean-up drive. This was followed by a segregation exercise and finally the count of the different objects collected was noted.
Starting a little after 7 am, the team was divided into a single line to cover a stretch of around 100 metres in an hour’s time. Instructions were given to collect every little thing from a tiny piece of paper, to cigarette snubs to huge plastic sheets. The items mostly picked were plastic spoons, icecream sticks and covers, plastic covers, cigarette snubs, plastic covers and wrappers, thermocol, and even clothe.
After segregration the WWF team noted the numbers so it can be used to survey what contributes to the garbage at beaches. TidyCity would also be giving out the numbers soon.
Apart from the exercise, we saw jelly fish remains, fishermen pulling nets, and ticket collectors. Srijith was affectionately called ‘njanjool’ (small worm) by one of them, which TidyCity decided to accept as his TidyCity name.
Sivakumar Sir from WWF treated us to coffee and snacks at the Indian Coffee House afterwards.
TC members who attended: Srijith, Manu, Rasika, Bindu, Ashith, Aneesh, Anil, Joji, Swapin, Cris
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