Tanzanian young women collect plastic wastes to protect Indian Ocean

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A group of Tanzanian young women on Saturday collected one ton of plastic wastes along the Indian Ocean beach in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam, a move to save the ocean from pollution.

Hellen Silas, chairperson of the Women in Recycling Foundation, led her fellows in collecting the plastic wastes at Kawe beach along the Indian Ocean coastal line.