Zoo turning into a plastic dump

 
Even though it is a plastic-free zone, the city zoo has turned into a huge dump for plastic items, including carry bags and PET bottles.
Zoo rules stipulate that any plastic item brought by a visitor be kept either in the cloakroom or outside the gate.
Exceptions are often made in the case of plastic feeding bottles and / or water bottles for very young children.
The white-uniformed zoo guards are supposed to be alert enough to prevent people from discarding plastic material near animal enclosure. In spite of this, many carry bags and bottles can be seen thrown near many enclosures.
On Friday afternoon, the zoo officials were alerted to a big plastic bag found in the middle of the lion enclosure.
The biggest plastic dump inside the zoo is perhaps the crocodile enclosure very near the exit point and opposite the pit displaying the spectacled caimans.
Sources in the zoo told The Hindu that all the waste materials that are gathered from near the `upper garden' of the museum compound get dumped inside this enclosure by zoo staff themselves. This includes organic waste, dead leaves, plastic bags and crushed plastic bottles.

(The Hindu, 17th February 2007)