3.5 tonnes of plastics removed from sea by a Kerala Fisherman
Reportedly 30 year old Priyesh KV, a fisherman from kerala’s Kozhikode district, has been going to sea to fish since he was 14 years old, but in the past few years, his fishing nets have caught more than just fish plastic waste. Meanwhile as he witnessed the situation worse, he decided to start a personal mission to remove as much as plastic from the sea as he can.
Furthermore in just two months,
Priyesh has managed to remove about 3.5 tonnes of plastic from the sea all by
himself. Priyesh, a native of Azhiyur, a coastal village at Vadakara in
Kozhikode was born into a humble family with limited means. Apparently from April, Priyesh has been trying
to pull up as much plastic as he can from the sea. Moreover he either stays
back longer to collect pieces of plastic or cuts his fishing hours short to
fetch plastic out of the sea. There were days when he would devote four to five
hours to collect plastic alone.
However Priyesh’s task, does not end with simply collecting the plastic and he makes sure that the plastic waste gets recycled. For this, the officials of Azhiyur panchayat step in. The waste will be taken to the panchayat’s plastic shredding unit, from where the plastic will be taken to a recycling unit.