More than 150 members of the Then Kailaya Bhakti Peravai on Sunday cleaned more than five km stretch of the pathway that leads to the Vellingiri hill shrine. A release from the Peravai said that the volunteers assembled around 8 a.m. and continued the cleaning till 4.30 p.m. with a lunch break.
At the end of the cleaning operation, they had collected 150 bags of waste, most of which was plastic. The volunteers would segregate the collected waste into degradable and non-degradable and send the non-degradable waste for recycling.
Most of the waste was what the pilgrims, who undertook the journey, had littered along the pathway – biscuit wrappers, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other waste. So much was the waste that it threatened ecology of the hills that were part of the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats, the release added.
At the end of the cleaning operation, they had collected 150 bags of waste, most of which was plastic. The volunteers would segregate the collected waste into degradable and non-degradable and send the non-degradable waste for recycling.
Most of the waste was what the pilgrims, who undertook the journey, had littered along the pathway – biscuit wrappers, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other waste. So much was the waste that it threatened ecology of the hills that were part of the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats, the release added.