Plastic is one of the hazardous products of the modern era, scattered everywhere, from mountains to the seabed. Deserts are also full of plastic pollution. While plastic is in the form of bottles, bags, etc, it harms the plants and retard growth and germination. With time, the plastic breaks in small pieces, becoming more dangerous and hazardous, especially for livestock. The so-called decomposable plastic is even more dangerous in my view. It shattered on a broad surface, usually accumulated under the bushes which ultimately makes a way to the camel or the livestock’s gut.
Once a week, I go to the desert, spend some hours and collect the plastic and through in the nearby waste bins. During such exercises, I almost collect up to 10 kg of waste, mostly bottles, and other plastic. I collect it in plastic bags and share the photographs on my social media to give 2 lessons to people, 1. to not through plastic except in the wastebin and 2 collect some waste from the desert whenever you visit the desert.
Here are some pictures of my desert cleaning activity.
Some bottles are glassmadeBefore cleaning after cleaningYou can see the difference before and after the cleaning covering the tiny Prosopis from the camels with the woodNewly germinated Prosopis flora in the desert.A beautiful growing Prosopis plant another Prosopis plant around the large and old Prosopis trees, many new plants have erupted from the roots. Such tiny plants also need protection. I put some old stalks of the tree on the new plants to be safe from grazing.Collection of different types of plastic from the desert, bags, bottles, and ropes.The bottles don’t dissolve naturallyThree bags full of collected plastic waste I collected from the desertThe scattered tinny pieces of the so-called decomposable plastic will go into the camel gut, so sad and painful. I have found many dead bodies of camels engulfed in plastic.The happy Prosopis trees, hugging. Cleanliness polishes the beauty of the desert clean desert
Reading under the shade of Prosopis tree in the desert is a paradise feeling
Studying books and articles about the desert and the camels in the desert
AA well done Dr sahib really you are strengthen the ECO system
Thanks very much for the appreciation.
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