Kerala Flood: River In Palakkad Throws Up All The Plastic Waste Dumped In It & It's A Sad Sight
'Earth is sick, she is vomiting because it can not digest plastic,' reads a comment under this heartbreaking picture of a river ridden with plastic waste in Kerala.
For years, we've all been aware of the ill-effects of plastic use, the fact that it's non-biodegradable, is clogging up rivers and oceans across the world and killing marine life.
Kerala, is reeling under another spell of terrible monsoon flood and one river in Palakkad, Kerala, is 'returning' all the plastic that was thrown into it. The sight is horrifying.
BaharathaPuzha in Palakkad, Kerala - returning every last piece of crap we gave her, via door-delivery. pic.twitter.com/jGTuWCGD8T
— Padma Pillai (@lotophagus)IFS officer, Parveen Kaswan also took to his Twitter account and captioned it, 'Home delivery!! The view is from Palakkad, Kerala. Water returning back the favour & all the plastic we gifted it. Plastic is forever', shows an area in Kerala flooded with plastic bottles that the water brought with it.
Home delivery !!The view is from Palakkad, Kerala. Water returning back the favour & all the plastic we gifted it. Plastic is forever. pic.twitter.com/US3198spvE
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan)'This is what happens when we take nature for granted', reads one angry tweet. Another comment reads, 'I feel terrible looking at this , and more as I am from Palakkad ..we are known to be God's own country ,we need to set example for others ,this shouldn't happen again.'
Angry tweets kept pouring in on Twitter, with people mostly hitting out on the irony on Kerala being 'Gods own country' riddled with waste management problems. Take a look at the reactions below:
#1
100% literacy delivers 100% littering
— Kamal पà¥à¤°à¥‡à¤®à¥€ Mission 400+(2024) (@KamalPremi2)#2
Why can't people learn to dispose their garbage correctly n responsibly? Choke our rivers n seas n cry foul about pollution!
— Rukmani Varma (@pointponder)#3
And v know how to give it back pic.twitter.com/kd1o28EXae
— Kavin Elamaraan (@Kaavinraa)#4
Imagine, what if palakkad residents are conscious and have not disposed plastic, but it was done by say calicut residents.. who does and who pays??
#5
The nature will only take whatever she can digest and puke all these crap things on us. Hard slap on everyone of us who are still sleeping and using these shits.
— Amruth (@amruth_1001)#6
Last year it was much worst and we have overcome well ,this too shall pass. Let the tourism and economy go down , still ,still you would be reading Kerala is among the top performing states in India in all formats.We don't need any tags.
— Vinitha Nair (@avinithanair6)#7
Majority is plastic water bottles. If evidence based policy making is something, it is here. Start with alternative to plastic water bottles and gradually banning them at all.
— Rajneesh Mishra🇮🇳 (@rajneeshm92)In a similar scene, Arabian Sea threw heaps of garbage along the Coastal Road following high tide.
The garbage prompted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to launch a massive clean-up drive along the coastal road which connects Worli to Colaba and other parts of South Mumbai.
'What goes around, comes around' and these instances are reminders for us to mend our ways.
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