Satya working with a fishing netOn
World Ocean Day in June, a dolphin washed up on to Sri Ma beach. “It
was a young dolphin that had not died a natural death, possibly
related to pollution, or to swallowed plastic,” says Satya Agrawal,
a teacher in NESS school, who was catalysed by this event to start
collecting waste on the beach. “There is trash everywhere, but it
hurts most on the beach because it causes a lot of harm to sea life.”Zero
Waste Beach is an initiative that collects trash from Auroville’s
beaches. The collected garbage is segregated, and the plastic waste
is alchemically transformed into new items.The
team hopes this could be a freely replicable model for the up-cycling
and re-cycling of trash in rural India.The
project started in June at the height of the lockdown, with different
groups coming together to clean beach trash, including numerous
guests stranded in Auroville since March. They felt Covid time was an
opportunity to look afresh at existing social issues, ...
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