As part of World Oceans Day, various organisations and individuals came together to clean the city’s beaches on Sunday. The Ocean Society of India in collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, organised a clean-up drive on the Kovalam beach, with the theme ‘Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us’.
Equipped with gloves and reusable bags, participants removed around 250 kg of plastic waste, discarded fishing gear, glass bottles, and other types of litter from the beach, which will be sent for scientific analysis as part of ongoing research into marine litter and microplastics.
