beach clean up

Rahul Maharana from Odisha spends his Sunday mornings collecting waste from the Devi estuary near Astaranga beach, and the nearby mangrove plantation, to do his bit to combat climate change

“I primarily work on two kinds of bottles; one is the upright bottle, in which we insert an LED light and the second one is one in which the bottle is inverted. This inverted bottle comes with a wooden stand, and that wood is also waste wood. All in all, we try and use all the discarded materials to put this together.”

“We want to keep our beaches alive. And so regardless of whether we get enough local participation, we will continue our battle."

These green patches or 'lungs of the city' have been revived due to efforts of the government and citizens to restore mangroves, clean beaches and forest patches.

Starting with a core group of 24 team members, the Beach Please drive now gets around 100 volunteers every week, who come down to the beach and pick up trash.