Eco India: How unchecked plastic pollution in our rivers is harming our ecosystems
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2022
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Not all of our waste ends up in landfills and scrapyards. Too much of it pollutes our seas and rivers. There are initiatives trying to change that. Along the Ganges river, a company from Germany is trying to help.
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Thank you for bringing this up. It's shameful that in our country where rivers are considered holy yet they're the most polluted. Not only politicians but ignorant people are equally to be blamed. Hope we learn & improve.
namani ganga has done leaps and bounds to clean the river. you should see namami gange projects taken all over the flow of river. but civilians should also take resposibility.
does India have no rules about littering? in the US if your caught littering you get large fines. This is also a societal issue your people have grown up living surrounded by trash so your ok with trash being everywhere.
@@HelminthCombos no one cares and corruption/bribe.
If the fine amout is $100, the accused will pay $20-30 to the officer and that officer will let him go.
If some officer denies bribe and take action, these people take help of local politician and put pressure on that officer to get their work done.
As an Indian I lost all my hopes in this nation. Inefficient and corrupted officer's running the country.
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there posioning there own well
The government can clean this up but cleanliness starts with the individual, with each family and household.
Do you think they care?
India is a gone case on many fronts, economy, pollution, politics, minority oppression, press freedom, religious hate. 👏👏👏
Women’s rights! It’s so unsafe for women. The list goes on.
More people should care.... from America. I think if we love our planet. We will live as humans. I picked up so much fishing line and garbage by the river I can't afford to still do it. The river is a blessing. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for making eco conscious people
It's sad how so many rivers are being polluted in India! Such a shame! What the heck is the government doing? Too busy in religious conflicts???? In a few years, river water will be so polluted that it will be unusable and then we complain about lack of water! How immoral are the people that they are polluting the water and the lakes and rivers??? Where are government regulations??? Being paid of by industry owners who are also polluting the water?
Did u watch the full video, did u watch modi speach about Hindu religious beliefs spoil the river, government sent workers everyday to clean the river what else can government do .. i simply ask what u done for India?
@@nationfirst984 Nmami gange😂😂😂..jmke loot ka schemes
@@quazinawazsharif9255 i don't know Hindi I'm from tamilnadu
Why do we always have to blame the government ! Do we wait for the government everytime to come and tell us to keep our rooms and houses clean....isn't it normally done as a routine and necessity ? Likewise we need to be careful outside also, just look around how many people mindlessly litter, the public places etc, and not just the illiterate and not so aware people,. I have personally seen well groomed people, in swanky cars and houses doing more harm to the environment. It has to come from within, and we need to check eachother, whenever we can and make them aware. Please stop blaming others, and start the initiative from one's own end.
Another big reason is the smart tactics used by the western countries, they ship all their trash to the poorer countries, who are already dealing with their own trash. Please read for yourself, the stories about trash being exported by these so called Clean, Developed and well organised countries to Asian countries including India. So in a way we are dealing with our trash and someone else's trash also....the western countries smirk at us for the dirt and the pollution around but we need to let them know, they need to handle their own trash and not pile up on us !!!!! We already have enought problems. And hope they realize Earth is round and very soon the same trash they thought vanished will reach their doorstep too !
People need to stop littering, and mange their waste properly instead of carelessly throwing in streets, lakes, rivers, and oceans as if it doesn’t have an impact on the climate. The government is not fully to blame here, but human stupidity.
Congratulations Scroll on covering this story.
Great job,
We need more stories like that.
This is an excellent example of taking action.
if the people of india are not willing to change their habits.... Nothing will change
Well, we can’t say nothing will change because if they don’t stop climate change will put a new spin on things.
Wow..finally we humans did it....this is what we wanted right.polluting the air,water and throwing trash everywhere...it's so beautiful.lets comment and say..ohh so bad...and after few minutes, We start the cycle again....i am so proud of humans..
China was affected by pollution more than ten years ago. This problem is easy to solve. 1. There are enough trash cans in residential areas. 2. The government establishes companies to collect and process garbage centrally. 3. Establish sewage standards and enforce them.4. Specify citizens’ obligations and refrain from littering..
Not only plastic but also it is polluted by sewage water
Too much efforts....salute
Thank you
Scroll is back 👍👍💯
It’s through initiatives like this that hope still prevails. Great work!
Thanks
Lobe from India, proud to be Indian 🇮🇳
Here in UK, we have environment officers that patrol the street and fines litter,i was heavily fined €400 for litter .
@@RB1987 that is why India is better, i can shit in the street and no one fine me ore care
@@hardiksukhdeep Yes.
Great work scroll 🙏🙏👍👍
We have environment officers that patrol streets and fines smoking,i was heavily fined €400 for smoking 😠
Didn't they clean it under Namami Gange Project?
This is all very well to clean up River Ganges, though I still think it's a pointless task as the river has beyond the point of repairing. Has the authority stopped people dumping rubbish into the river or dishing out fines. There's no point to clean up on one side, but the other side is dumping rubbish.
Cleaning up the rivers is a good idea but seems kinda pointless if the people just continue to use it as a dump. Ideally you'd want to stop the rubbish getting into the rivers in the first place.
The non-usable plastics may very well be used for petrol /diesel manufacture and for laying out roads.
vamos limpar os rios amigos
Is there similar activity being carried out in upper Ganges, like in Haridwar/Garhmukteshwar in Uttarakhand
SUPERPOWER 2020!
Just saw two Gujarati women arguing with Dutch police that spitting on the road is allowed in India. Felt so ashamed.
In india its legal for spitting vimal gutka in roads
Jis river mein hangte hain wohi bagwaan bhi hai.
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We all has to save earth 🌍 no use plastic items and put wastage in dustbin.
a boat with irrigators can pull all the plastic into its own water stream so it can pull as much plastic as it could as it flows along the water
Maine ak sajjan ko nadi me kachra dalte dekha to tok diya😊 , to us mahan ne mujhe hi safai dena suru kar diya😂 kaha ki pet me khana dalte ho to pet bhi ganda hota hai pet me khana mat dalo🙄 ab us mahanubav ko kaun samjaye ki pet khud saf bhi hota hai nadi ko saf karna padta hai .
Kair maine usi din se soj liya ki in mahano ko samjhane se achha khud hi samjlo . Apna to kam hi hai safai karna aur inka kam hai nadi ganda karna phir ham to bane hi hai nadi safai ke liye.
Aur khud par dyan do dusro par nahi😂😂
Govt take strictly action
what do you do with that leftover plastic.
This is the consequences of over populating.
Please add *Thanks* button.
fireworks that ignite the sky can leave their fire dust to pollute the sky and the ground as it falls. it can also fall into the ocean if it’s lighted around those particular areas
Ganga is the Sacred River of India....now see the condition of River Ganga....
Start up a garbage system that benefits both the environment and people's socio-economic difficulties. Why don't they introduce, for example, that you can reserve cans and plastic bottles? They could also give a certain amount of money for plastic bags if they return 5 kg of them at a time. Precisely to reduce plastic that is thrown into water.
India is the superpower of the world, claimed Indians.😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Bhundh Bhundh se ghada barta he. Hum sab se apne jeevan se plastic kam karna chaiye
About time to ban all plastics, starting with supermarket products and food containers
Refill and done
celebrations near the river can fall into the water so beware of that
in our religion we call river a mother so we don't damage it
but results turn out opposite
Tum Hindu ganga me neha kar apnay papo ku doo letay ho mager apnay papo sa ganga ko Ganda Karlaty ho
Looks good on the greasebags.
The obsesion is super power
it is high time rivers are cleaned in the interest of residents & agriculture & animals. good move by bjp govt. jaihind.
6:02 those floaties there seem unstable can it’s overall unsanitary for what it is but it’s a start 🦓
1:36 maybe the plastic can come from fishing hooks that get cut off by the water microbiome 🐠
Who pollute this river?? Politician no public pollute this river by dumping his/her waste
Pollution ki baat aai too aab inn saab hindu hi dikha te hai or koi rahata nhi hai kya India mai.
Or jo bi ye budhi jiwi chatakare le kar comment kar ke dikha rahe hai ki wo environment ke kitane bade chintak hai ..ye hi wo log hai jo private car , AC , plastic use or haar uss chija ka use karte hai jo environment ko harm karti hai.
So don't be a hypocrite and try to solve the problem at root level .
Stop the making of plastics
Ban plastic
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Everybody knows but
Am glad in the USA we can't through bodies in the river you go to jail or through trash in the water or anywhere you get a fine and go to jail maybe India will start doing that people will stop.
Eliminate usage of plastics? excuse me but why don't you implement a proper trash collecting and disposal system instead? the whole problem is people throwing shit into the river right? remove plastics and they'll just throw whatever the hell replaces plastics into the river.
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Media keep making the documentary.
Govt keep extending the deadline even spending crores of tax money
No accountability.
Few woke citizens let us pick up trash. And that trash goes to landfill
Here in UK, we have environment officers that patrol the street and fines litter,i was heavily fined €400 for litter
Hell
Ooohhh so this is how curry is made 😂
please send them to thermal recovery because u can't use people its soo sick.
il say 1 ting if we want to get rid of plastics from dis world u have to use artificial intelligence.
Chiiiii India itna gnda hai 🤮
All trade with India and China should be halted until their government institutions get their respective countries on par with first world nations environmental policies.
When and only when the people are so destitute that their only option is revolution will the oligarchs take heed.
Yuck 🤮🤢
In dian patriots:- This is USA, UK, Pakistan or Bangladesh
Make India Great Again. Wooohooo Buffalo in Charge. Hindu Gutter Raaj. Oh wait it was called Acchey Din or Make in India ... this is the reality otherwise.
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