Dr S Balasubramanian Director of clinic, TANUVAS, said: "The surgery was performed on October 18. The surgery began at 11 am and ended at 4:30 pm.Chennai: A team of veterinarians removed 52 kilograms of plastic waste from inside the stomach of a cow through a surgery that lasted over five hours in Vepery, Chennai.On October 2 central government has announced the ban of single-use plastic. We removed the plastic. The problem was that the wastes were attached to the walls of the rumen, we had to be very careful that we do not damage the wall. The amount of material undigested was huge at around 52 kg.Its owner said he had purchased the cow when it was around six months pregnant and although it delivered a calf 20 days ago, China kids stools Manufacturers it was having problems in passing dung and urine..Surgeons from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University operated on the bovine to remove the plastic which was ingested by the bovine over a period of two years probably while foraging for food.An X-Ray and Ultrasound scan revealed that plastic had occupied 75 per cent of the rumen . The surgery normally takes two hours but the problem they faced was these materials probably have been inside for around two years and were attached to the walls of the rumen.Dr Velavan, Assistant Professor and Surgeon told ANI: "We gave region-specific anaesthesia instead of general anaesthesia. The cow also had difficulties yielding milk and frequently kicked its stomach with its legs, according to its owner.""After the surgery, the rumen was filled with 5 kg of bran, jaggery and pro-biotic bolus which will help in the fast recovery," Dr Velavan added.After observing the problem, the owner took the cow to a local veterinarian who advised him to take it to TANUVAS.Apart from plastic waste, surgeons also found a coin, a screw and two nails from inside the cow, which had delivered some 20 days ago."The cow is currently undergoing treatment. It was a challenging surgery for the surgeons. The rumen was completely occupied by the plastic.

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Dr Kumar said that the scientists were surprised to see so much of plastics at such a depth in ToT.. Uninhabited islands like Rose Island have become worst victims. Floating plastic bottles and plastic cans dot the area and we could also see all the plastics come together and filled an area in the sea face. At this rate, the island is doomed in another 20-25 years. Rajeesh Kumar, a scientist with CMLRE, said. We never could see so much of plastics in such a depth of over 1 km anywhere else,” said Dr Rajeesh Kumar adding that water currents may be the deciding factor in drawing such amount of plastics to the area. So it is high time the administration put curbs on the unmindful use of the plastics in the area by the tourists,” said Dr Rajeesh Kumar. “We recovered about 300 kg of plastics from ToT in 14 trawling sessions conducted as part of a fishery survey,” Dr M.Kochi: That the seas are no more safe from plastic invasion is common knowledge. “The Arabian Sea is polluted more than other regions with plastics but the case of ToT is even worse.“We spotted the invasion of plastic while trawling in these areas in the ship. We also thought it to be a pristine island lock folding stoolsmall but were surprised at finding the plastic pollution.P.The Andaman seas in the Bay of Bengal and an area named Terrace of Trivandrum in 25,000 sq km area in Arabian Sea off the Kerala capital are among the areas worst polluted by plastics, according to scientists with the Centre for Marine Living Resou-rces & Ecology , Kochi. The CMLRE scientists said that 80 per cent of the pollution of oceans comes from land-based activities.“The bane of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the over-exposure to tourism and the unmindful dumping of plastic by the tourists. We conducted the 14 trawling operations in ToT area in the past one and a half years. But of late, the danger has travelled far deep, forcing scientists to press the alarm button. “Studies are taking place to find the exact reason,” he said.Apart from plastic waste, there is remarkable presence of biomedical waste in the ToT area, Dr Kumar said, adding: “The area is unique in terms of bio-diversity and macro faunal biomass.

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Because only when the consumers become aware will the bigger brands take notice of it which will help improve conditions for both, the environment and the workers,” says the social entrepreneur. We realised that people in the slums, mostly ragpickers, didn’t have anything.Since most plastic waste instead of getting recycled ends up in landfills, Conserve India took it upon itself to help “develop this technique where the plastic from the landfill sites could be reinvented into a new material we call Handmade Recycled Plastic.So far, the organisation has upcycled about 10,000 tonnes of waste out of new plastic foot tub which 6,000 tonnes was plastic waste and trained more than 500 ragpickers through various skill development workshops. “When we started working in waste management, we started working with the slum community. The NGO focuses on upcycling, energy efficiency and food security, while trying to provide employment to ragpickers. “We have just started a project in food security that promotes agriculture through hydrophonics which means to grow food without needing soil. The only resource available to them was waste which was not generating enough of an income for them.. But till that happens, to make sure that things don’t get too bad for residents of Delhi, the newly appointed Director of Conserve India, Kanika Ahuja, is trying to do her best to upcycle the city’s waste as much as possible in an organisation that was started by her parents in 1998. The fabric that the NGO develops was recently voted the most sustainable fabric at an Ashoka Conference.” The revenue generated goes back to the NGO to sustain its activities, explained Kanika. This technology equips them to grow their own food with much cost-efficiency,” she says. Also, even all the waste they collected was plastic and nothing can be done about it because the normal processing methods don’t usually work on plastic.” said the 27-year-old.A recent product line uses old clothing which is shredded and then re-weaved into cloth using natural fibers. We use it to develop fashion products which are sold internationally since we don’t have a strong market in India yet.“I think the consumers should start being more aware of where the products they buy come from and how sustainable they have been produced. During ourwork at the slums we saw that the food there was scarce and vegetable vendors who came to sell there more often than not exploited the slum dwellers. The aim is to generate as much employment as possible while efficiently managing waste even in the remotest of villages around Delhi since the artisans in those villages are ones who help weave it with a technology they know best, charkha.Lack of employment and environmental pollution through waste are two major issues the city battles.The goal shouldn’t be to just protect the environment but to improve the world such that the environment no longer needs protection.

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