Dreaming of cleaner lakes and rivers
The Hindu
A kidney donor is on a mission to clean up waterbodies
Every afternoon, R. Sabeesh ventures out to Parayanchal, a canal in front of his house at Manaveli in Thanneermukkom, on a small fibre boat. After an hour, he rows back home with the craft filled with a melange of plastic waste. It has plastic bottles, used containers, and a mix of other stuff bleached by sunlight and water current over years. The 41-year-old man who is on a mission to clean Parayanchal and its tributaries linked to Vembanad Lake says he got inspired by N.S. Rajappan, a differently abled man from Kottayam hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year for cleaning Vembanad Lake by collecting plastic. Mr. Sabeesh bought a fibre boat for ₹26,000 and started collecting plastic floating on the water in July. He has so far collected more than 3,000 plastic bottles, besides other plastic materials.
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