Kerala man builds garden to prevent accumulation of garbage under a bridge in Kozhikode
India Today
A Kerala man builds a garden to prevent waste from accumulating beneath a bridge in Kozhikode.
Shamseer, a resident of Kerala's Kozhikode, is slowly and steadily making his village waste-free by turning an area under a bridge into a garden.
It was during one of his early morning walks that he found waste dumped under the Panniyankar bridge with stray dogs feeding on the trash. This often led to accidents near the bridge as dogs chased and collided with vehicles moving along the bridge.
Shamseer set out to educate people who threw waste under the bridge. Many others tried to dissuade Shamseer, saying he lived a little away from the bridge. As a last resort, Shamseer even knocked on the doors of city corporation, who also refused to move the garbage from under the bridge.
He then decided to move the waste himself into an open land. However, Shamseer soon found out that as more land became available to dump trash, more waste accumulated over time.
In the end, Shamseer decided to make a garden under the bridge to make sure that no waste is dumped there. He watered the plants, maintained it for several months and it worked wonders.
Although the new initiative has stopped people from dumping waste, Shamseer is developing plans to chase away people sneaking in to steal flower pots from the garden.
More people have now joined in Shamseer's efforts to turn the area into a zero waste zone.
