Some of the plastic and other waste recovered from the stomach of the cow. (TOI photo)

AHMEDABAD: The doctors of the Jivdaya Charitable Trust on Friday were shocked when they found nearly 100 kg of waste including iron nails, plastic bags and socks from the stomach of the cow that was brought to the trust for treatment.

Kartik Shastri from Jivdaya Chartiable Trust said “The cow was rescued from Sabarmati area and was brought for treatment at the trust hospital. During the treatment the doctors realised that the cow was pregnant and was weak. But the cow was not able to even walk and after diagnosis, the doctors decided to operate the cow.”

During the operation, the doctor found three buckets full of garbage from the stomach. This included nails, screws, wires which was disposed of in the garbage. The doctors even found socks, pieces of clothes and even banned plastic bags which were less than four microns.

Shastri said that this is not the first time that such plastic waste has been found from the stomach of the cow. “Earlier we had found around 25-40 kg of plastic waste from the stomach of the cow.”

He further said as per the rules the plastic bags below 4 microns are banned by the ministry of forest and environment, but in the 98kg of the waste that was recovered, maximum was plastic waste.

