Visitors drop two tonne garbage in Vandalur zoo during Pongal

Garbage to the extent of two tonne has been removed by workers from the Vandalur zoo premises near here, which received more than a lakh visitors during the Pongal festival last week.
More than 150 sanitary workers were involved in the cleaning of the premises and they had collected 210 gunny bags full of garbage, zoo officials said.
Chocolate and biscuit wrappers, ice cream sticks, plastic bags, aluminium foils, broken bangles, single and damaged footwear, hair-pins, hair bands, kerchiefs, napkins, papers, empty water bottles, glass bottles, tea cups, sugarcane bagasse, steel pieces, etc, were found among the garbage, they said.

The items posed a threat as there were chances of the items ending up in animal enclaves and consumed by them.
During the three days of Pongal festival since January 15, a total of 1,08,186 persons visited the 1,490 acre campus, which houses the largest zoo in the country.