Chennai Coastal Cleanup, June 19th - Photo Albums, Zone-wise

Find below unique moments captured on Sunday showing the spirit of our green army while clean sweeping our troubled Chennai coastline. Most of the garbage found on the beaches is YOURS and MINE dumped near lakes and water bodies which eventually - through storm drains and rivers - flows to the ocean and anything that floats (plastic, thermocoil, cheppels, closed glass bottles) ends up back on our beaches. This is just the tip of the iceberg - what lies beyond the seas is beyond our imagination... Definitely a WAKE UP CALL for all of us to start REDUCING our garbage footprint by starting to SEGREGATE wet (kitchen waste, food) to be composted and dry (plastic, glass, paper, metal) to be recycled through your neighborhood kadibawala. Everything you need to know to get started is available atwww.chennaitrekkers.org

A small step for each of us, a huge impact together - every day Chennai generates 6000 tonnes of mixed toxic garbage which gets dumped on our beautiful Palikarnai marsh land, a (supposedly) protected wet-land and sensitive ecosystem. Let us all make a pledge to SAY NO to single-use plastics (polythene covers, glass bottles, paper/plastic cups, straws) which are used for a mere few seconds/minutes as matter of convenience and then get dumped and lie around for hundreds of years causing severe damage to our beautiful green planet (and our own health). CHANGE has to start from within US!

Photo links have been categorized zone-wise for easy reference. More photos are being shared on our CCC FB Page as they become available.

Do tag and share to create awareness among your friends, family and colleagues:

1.Marina

https://www.facebook.com/boghi.basker/media_set?set=a.1325229480824516.1073741854.100000124316598&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/C.PRABU/media_set?set=a.10206903806970708.1073741840.1143663591&type=1&l=14ff298969

https://www.facebook.com/bmslovesimage/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1064233476979699

https://www.facebook.com/saravana.pandian.184/media_set?set=a.1140371219362008&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/KarthikGPhotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=805214629580631

2.Lighthouse

https://www.facebook.com/srimathi.sridharan.1/media_set?set=a.10153428684081792.1073741836.557271791&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.861343340636656.1073741836.685526101551715&type=1&l=e43aa33f91

https://www.facebook.com/HeartgraphsStudios/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1115572615167639

https://www.facebook.com/kishore.venkat/media_set?set=a.1093513897354473.1073741826.100000876186211

3.Foreshore

https://www.facebook.com/prabhu.delhibabu.5/media_set?set=a.1048910838477417.1073741892.100000755313114&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/KXposurePhotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1007148842654615

https://www.facebook.com/SYL-Photography-491031271055177/photos/?tab=album&album_id=601812333310403

4.Santhome

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.924866114308247.1073741846.100003546015684&type=1&l=60513996ee

https://www.facebook.com/sai.stunz/media_set?set=a.1047295698650964.1073741838.100001116306392&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/bipasha.mukherjee.94/media_set?set=a.1130544430321294.1073741840.100000972443382&type=3

5. Broken Bridge

https://www.facebook.com/thangasami.sivanu/media_set?set=a.1302346933126310.100000530477714&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/vishnu.dayal.92/media_set?set=a.10153507340646751.1073741887.713116750&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/harish.k.tk/media_set?set=a.10209734177701718.1073741836.1549009983&type=3

6. Besant Nagar

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1104027849658276.1073741900.452543214806746&type=1&l=7a9fb60af7

https://www.facebook.com/jotsna.iyer/media_set?set=a.1649279825398755.1073741845.100009502597033&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/evanjelin.karunya/media_set?set=a.1225660407466063.1073741835.100000663473891&type=3&pnref=story

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1aqxprbJfsgUTFZZEx2YzVranM

https://goo.gl/photos/8qKAjbRksfL7ra4x5

7. Kaleshetra

https://www.facebook.com/plutosakthi/media_set?set=a.10154239164081779.1073741831.767066778&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/249176271813775/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1074270322637695

 

8. Thiruvanmiyur

https://www.facebook.com/Apple-of-My-Eye-347580192015842/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1010197542420767

https://www.facebook.com/625586970940801/photos/?tab=album&album_id=631328633699968

9. Kottivakkam

https://www.facebook.com/766210510125451/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1046371658776000

https://www.facebook.com/aasifiqbalj/media_set?set=a.1294578640570504.1073741853.100000551404183&type=1&l=7d351e9dd7   

https://www.facebook.com/stalkinglightphotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=244358862612228

10. Neelankarai

https://www.facebook.com/rasith.pilot/media_set?set=a.1102820533122306.1073741867.100001831089276&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/aravindphotography152/photos/?tab=album&album_id=295769834100435

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154245208979344&type=1&l=dd3cdcc6f7

11. Injambakkam & 12 – Akkarai

https://www.facebook.com/BharaniPhotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1701351860117296

https://www.facebook.com/BharaniPhotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1701355410116941

 

13. Panayur & 14 - Uthandi

https://www.facebook.com/PraSou/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1558751184429384

https://www.facebook.com/GKJSAIRAM/media_set?set=a.1625750974381470.1073741840.100008397488007&type=3&pnref=story

Additional Media Publications:

242 - The Hindu, June 16, Residents come together to clean up Sembakkam lake
243 - Mylapore Times, June 16, Clean up held this morning, Waste is immense in Santhome zone
244 - LiveMint, June 16, When Chennai woke up to clean up its sea shore
245 - The Hindu, June 16, Residents of gated communities in Sholinganallur take up the broom