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Cleaning up the Marina: This Chennai club shows you the way
Cleanup drive to gather over 50 tonnes of garbage across a 20 km stretch
Plastic bags strewn across the sands, half-eaten ice cream sticks dug into sand castles – seem like a familiar if unwanted sight? But come June 19, and Chennai’s beaches might not look this way anymore, as the Chennai Trekking Club (CTC) is hosting the Chennai Coastal Cleanup, which they hope will metamorphose into “South India’s biggest clean up drive”.
In its seventh edition this year, the Chennai Coastal Cleanup was initiated by Peter Van Giet to create a ‘strong environment about the negative effects of plastics on the oceans.’
“We wanted to sensitise people on the use of plastic, simultaneously educating them to manage their own garbage. Ultimately, it’s an effort to reduce whatever negative impact created on the environment,” says Peter. The Chennai Coastal Cleanup holds the Limca Record for maximum garbage collection, with 5584 volunteers collecting 36.7 tonnes garbage along a stretch from Marina to Kovalam in 2013.
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/cleaning-marina-chennai-club-shows-you-way-44664
Cleanup drive to gather over 50 tonnes of garbage across a 20 km stretch
Plastic bags strewn across the sands, half-eaten ice cream sticks dug into sand castles – seem like a familiar if unwanted sight? But come June 19, and Chennai’s beaches might not look this way anymore, as the Chennai Trekking Club (CTC) is hosting the Chennai Coastal Cleanup, which they hope will metamorphose into “South India’s biggest clean up drive”.
In its seventh edition this year, the Chennai Coastal Cleanup was initiated by Peter Van Giet to create a ‘strong environment about the negative effects of plastics on the oceans.’
“We wanted to sensitise people on the use of plastic, simultaneously educating them to manage their own garbage. Ultimately, it’s an effort to reduce whatever negative impact created on the environment,” says Peter. The Chennai Coastal Cleanup holds the Limca Record for maximum garbage collection, with 5584 volunteers collecting 36.7 tonnes garbage along a stretch from Marina to Kovalam in 2013.
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/cleaning-marina-chennai-club-shows-you-way-44664
