The Munnar panchayat officials on Friday started to clear the non-segregated waste from a dumping yard at Kallar, near Nallathanni, where wild elephants were found eating plastic waste.
Activists of the Munnar Environment and Wildlife Society (MEWS) on Thursday had noticed two tuskers eating waste from the yard. They alerted the Forest department and panchayat officials, who reached the spot and chased the tuskers from the dumping yard. The Hindu on Friday reported the incident.
Munnar panchayat secretary K.N. Sahajan said the panchayat had already begun to shift the non-segregated waste from the dumping yard to a waste treatment plant. “The non-segregated waste will be processed at the plant soon. A major part of the non-segregated waste is thrown by tourists,” said the official.
