Chennai Trekking Club gears up for the fifth Annual Chennai Coastal Cleanup on June 8
Posted on: 19/May/2014 10:02:50 AM
Chennai Trekking Club (CTC) is gearing up for the fifth Annual Chennai Coastal Cleanup on June 8, which also happens to be World Ocean Day.The massive cleanup will be coordinated by an organizing team consisting of more than 100 members — all from the CTC. The team will coordinate with volunteers at more than 15 target beach zones. “Our target is to collect more than 50 tonnes of garbage from the 20 kilometre or more stretch of beaches in the city with the help of more than 5,000 volunteers,” said a member of CTC.
Individual volunteers, corporates, schools and NGOs are set to join the mission which involves cleaning up of various parts of the coastal line — the entire stretch of the Marina, all the way to Puducherry. Teams will be formed to cover key areas like the Broken Bridge, Besant Nagar, Kalakshetra, Thiruvanmiyur, Kottivakkam, Pallavakkam, Neelankarai, Injambakkam, Akkarai, Panayur and Kovalam.
This year, the theme is ‘conservation and recycling’. With this project, the club hopes to send a strong message of environmental awareness and conservation to society.
