Conservationists have called on the Salem division of the Southern Railways to ban the use of plastics on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) after local residents noticed the presence of chips packets and other packaging in the dung of elephants that utilise the Coonoor slopes.
Residents, who documented the presence of plastic items, said they noticed the presence of packaging material in multiple piles of elephant dung below the Coonoor slopes.
