Cyclone Tauktae helps sea return Mumbai’s garbage

The Cyclone Tauktae made a landfall in Mumbai on Monday and along with the gushing water came loads of garbage, mostly plastic.

The media discussed precautions that needed to be taken, government’s preparedness, the cyclone’s impact on life and property everywhere from Tamil Nadu to Gujarat. A very visible impact that went unnoticed though was the sight of our own garbage returned by the sea with “thanks”.

Mumbaikars took to social media to share horrifying pictures of piles of garbage thrown all along the prominent beaches of the city like Juhu, Girgaon and Gateway of India.

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Many called for immediate and strict rules to prevent people from throwing waste into rivers and nullahs because eventually all water bodies drain their water into the sea.

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official told The Financial Express that the municipal staff picked up four trucks of garbage around the Gateway of India after the storm left.

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar also said that sea dumped tonnes of garbage near Marine Drive in south Mumbai.

Here are some of the pictures and messages shared by Twitter users:

#Cleanthenature
Natural cleanse, After cyclone Tauktae, garbage returned by sea at all Mumbai beaches.Nature waste out of sea on its https://t.co/bfOEUKXCMS can see the condition of mumbai beaches. pic.twitter.com/Hcpt1J4s21

— 𝒮𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝓁… (@Sachin22851972) May 19, 2021

Nature has its own way of balancing things and cleansing itself. #CycloneTauktae returns the garbage dumped in sea back to the people of #Mumbai.
But we will never learn lessons even from this. pic.twitter.com/Trwl2Nds3t

— Syed Faisal Iqbal (@SyedF_official) May 19, 2021

This is the situation of our pumping stations @mybmc has spend crores of rupees in the name of making #Mumbai water logging free. Pumping station failed today, just like every year causing massive flooding in south & central Mumbai. Mumbai Central was the worst affect area. pic.twitter.com/BYuMkyi8Xj

— Rais Shaikh (@rais_shk) May 17, 2021