Plastic waste removal drive in Sundarbans

Bagerhat Correspondent :

Forest guards have conducted a drive to remove plastic waste floating from the sea in Dublar Char in the Sundarbans. A huge amount of plastic waste has been removed in the last two days.

According to forest department sources, forest guards led by Deputy Ranger Subrata Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of the Eastern Sundarbans Division’s Jele Palli Dubla Patrol Outpost, and Forester Tanvir Hasan Imran, officer-in-charge of the Alorkol Forest Patrol Outpost, removed a huge amount of plastic waste floating from the Bay of Bengal in the Alorkol, Meherali and Office Kella chars of Dublar on Sunday and Monday.

The environment of the Sundarbans was about to be polluted due to these floating plastic wastes.

Deputy Ranger Subrata Kumar Das told, for several days, various types of plastic, including various items, were floating from different points of the sea and getting stuck in the chars.

As a result, the environment of the Sundarbans was about to be polluted. Forest guards have worked tirelessly to remove several tons of plastic waste from the chars along the seashore in a two-day cleaning campaign.

Md. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Eastern Sundarbans Forest Division, Bagerhat told, the forest guards have removed the plastic waste that has been floating in the various chars of the Sundarbans including Dublarchar, Shelarchar, Kachikhali. The DFO added, the campaign to remove plastic waste from the seashore will continue.