Tourists made to travel back 80 km to pick up trash

Bengaluru: If you are in Karnataka you better be careful, particularly about where you throw your trash. Two youths were made to travel 80km back to Madikeri in Coorg just so that they could clean up the garbage they had thrown on the highway while travelling.

While driving on the highway, the two youths apparently threw out empty pizza boxes from their car. Unfortunately for them, the boxes contained the bills, which also mentioned one of their phone numbers. This helped the police to find a link between the litter and the litterers.

Madetira Thimmaiah, General Secretary of Kodagu Tourism Association, was the one who spotted the pizza boxes by the side of the road. Just days earlier, he and other members of the Kadagadalu gram panchayat had conducted a clean-up drive in the area to restore its natural beauty. So, when he spotted the pizza boxes, he had to investigate further. "I decided to open up the packet and luckily found a bill which had the person's phone number. I called up the person and requested him to return to the spot and pick up the waste," he said.

However, the person refused to do so since he had crossed Coorg already but did apologize. The number was then shared with the local police and a social media campaign was put on social media to prevent them from littering the area further.

After receiving numerous calls, the youth who littered turned around and travelled 80 kms to come to pick up the boxes.

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