Plastic Waste Clogs Kolkata Drainage Systems Amidst Rainfall Fears

Imagine Kolkata's city has a big underground system to carry away rainwater when it pours.

But, people throw a lot of plastic trash on the streets.

This plastic gets washed into the drains with the rain.

It's like when too many toys get flushed down a bathtub drain and it gets blocked!

The plastic piles up in special pumping stations that help move the water.

Sometimes, so much plastic gets stuck that officials have to remove it with trucks.

They have screens to catch the plastic before it reaches the pumps, but the amount of trash is overwhelming.

Even when it's not raining, plastic still gets into the drains.

This can stop the pumps from working, which is a big problem.

A lot of the city's trash, especially plastic, doesn't even make it to the places where it's supposed to be thrown away, so it ends up in drains and rivers instead.