A group of volunteers removed tonnes of waste from Filam beach in Mahout and Shanna Port during a two-day cleaning drive in three sessions.The volunteers of Save Oman Beaches did.
Oman: Colourful, reusable grocery bags in fashion Raajeshwari Ashok, Correspondent
Muscat: Supermarkets and consumers have handled the ban on single-use plastic bags effective from yesterday in Oman quite smoothly. Many stores had already put in place an effective phase-out of plastic bags more than a couple of months ago.
Ammujam Ravindran, a staunch proponent of environment-friendly measures and the founding member of the growing Save Oman’s Beaches group, has been campaigning for plastic-ban since a very long time. “Relentless action will surely bring in the results. The change we are seeing now is a good example of this fact. Every week, when we clear the beaches off mounds of plastic in every form, we think of those birds and sea-animals that cannot differentiate plastic and end up with these inside their body. This will bring a lot of positive changes in the environment.”