Coimbatore: After finding a video clip looking for plastic in elephant dirt in Marudhamalai Hill Road, the forestry department on Tuesday launched a cleaning work along the road for two kilometers and collected 200kg of plastic waste.
When 25 staff from the forest department were led by TK Ashok Kumar District Forest officers and 10 sanitation workers from Marudhamalai cleaning stretches.
Also sensitive to shopkeepers and worshipers do not use plastic in areas that are sensitive to the environment.
“Wild elephants consume plastic while grazing.
People may not throw away or dispose of plastic waste in the stretch of Swami Temple of Subramalai Marudhamalai.
We ask the temple authority to ban plastic use in stores in the temple area,” said a forest officer.
Meanwhile, Aaniver, a NGO, filed a petition to the Minister of Electricity V Senthil Balaji, Comprect Collector GS Sameran and District Forest Officer on Tuesday, looking for a trash ban by Somaiiyampalayam Panchayat near KP Rangaraj, however, said Panchayat had stopped throwing garbage in Near the forest area and find another place near the Vadavalli police station.
He assured that Panchayat would remove the waste thrown away near the previous forest.