Clean up Crew
We spent early Sunday morning at a beach clean up. We, along with lots of other people, assembled at various points along Chennai's beaches, donned gloves, and with biodegradable trash bags in hand, tackled Chennai's truly trashy beaches.
Here's a write up from someone in the organizing group, the Chennai Trekking Club , with a FaceBook link at the end for more photos:
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2369 volunteers turned up yesterday to clean-sweeped the 2nd largest beach in the world removing 17.6 tonnes of garbage in order to send a strong message of environmental awareness through our society.
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It was fun, it was overwhelming- shoes, motorbike helmets, old pillows, toothbrushes, lots and LOTS of plastic bags, pieces of rope & fishing nets, all were collected - and it was gratifying. It needs to be done again every weekend.
Actually, teaching & awareness needs to come first. As we had our trash bags in hand, and were opening the plastic packets of gloves, people dropped their plastic glove bags on the ground and walked off! When we left, we saw several green trash bags blowing across the beach. Matthew & I picked up several used gloves left on the sand as we were forming that human chain shown above, to move the trash from the beach to the truck pick-up point.
We spent early Sunday morning at a beach clean up. We, along with lots of other people, assembled at various points along Chennai's beaches, donned gloves, and with biodegradable trash bags in hand, tackled Chennai's truly trashy beaches.
Here's a write up from someone in the organizing group, the Chennai Trekking Club , with a FaceBook link at the end for more photos:
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2369 volunteers turned up yesterday to clean-sweeped the 2nd largest beach in the world removing 17.6 tonnes of garbage in order to send a strong message of environmental awareness through our society.
A
shared concern of natural preservation brought together 60 teams including 1000 CTCians and individual volunteers, 17 companies, 12 villages,
9 colleges, 5 non-profits, 3 schools and 3 homes teaming up together for this
massive cleanup operation.
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It was fun, it was overwhelming- shoes, motorbike helmets, old pillows, toothbrushes, lots and LOTS of plastic bags, pieces of rope & fishing nets, all were collected - and it was gratifying. It needs to be done again every weekend.
Actually, teaching & awareness needs to come first. As we had our trash bags in hand, and were opening the plastic packets of gloves, people dropped their plastic glove bags on the ground and walked off! When we left, we saw several green trash bags blowing across the beach. Matthew & I picked up several used gloves left on the sand as we were forming that human chain shown above, to move the trash from the beach to the truck pick-up point.
We went to breakfast here afterward: http://www.muruganidlishop.com/
(make sure your sound is turned on for some soothing music).
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