New Delhi: Nature is paying back human beings in kind, at least that is what the viral video which has ignited a discussion on waste management depicts.
The video of a man walking on a river “choked with garbage” in Brazil has shocked the entire world. The video shows a barefooted man walking on the Sarapuí River which lies to the west of Rio de Janeiro, reported The Indian Express.
The sea of mullock can be seen extending to the national park, a forest with high biodiversity. The nearby forested area was designated as a state park in 2013, partly to protect the region’s water resources.
The river swells up in the monsoon, and when the flooded water recedes, polluted waste replaces it for the rest of the year. As per a New York Times report, half of the people living adjoining the river do not have waste processing systems. “The Rio Sarapuí provides roughly 10 percent of the freshwater that feeds Rio’s Guanabara Bay, often carrying the sewage and garbage from upstream.”
