Shaniera Akram raises the alarm on garbage at Karachi beach
Shaniera Akram has long been speaking out on the environmental issues the metropolis faces, particularly the single-use plastic products and dumping of garbage in open and public spaces.
Shaniera had last stressed the condition of Karachi’s Clifton beach a couple of months ago on social media, declaring it as a biohazard site and in a state of emergency.
She had spotted nine syringes at the beach when she tweeted about the issue in September, urging that the beach should be closed down until the proper authorities guarantee safety.
There is kilometres of medical waste including hundreds of open needle syringes amongst other things, that has come in from the ocean. Clifton beach, at this moment, is extremely dangerous and needs to be shut down #CliftonBeach #MedicalWaste #BeachShutDown #ImSoSorryKarachi pic.twitter.com/VEDZUdauNe
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
Akram took to the beach once again during a beach clean drive, calling the need for a proper system as she stressed that bandaging the problem would leave us in the same situation when the beach rubbish will wash in on a daily basis
All day every day these workers are in the hot sun cleaning up the filth that is getting washed on our shores. Our ocean is polluted and no matter how hard we work at cleaning the beach rubbish still washes in everyday. We need to fix the source instead of bandaging the problem! pic.twitter.com/qQZPfiMMKF
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) November 10, 2019
Remember that plastic that we used once…… pic.twitter.com/6UTKpzTKx6
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) November 10, 2019
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