SRINAGAR: It is ‘Hollandse Schoonmaak’ (Dutch cleaning) in Kashmir as a 69-year-old woman from the Netherlands has made it a mission to clean the waters of the famous tourist attraction Dal Lake of plastic waste.
Armed with her love for nature, Ellis Hubertina Spaaanderman can often be seen rowing her boat quietly in the waters of the lake to collect plastic waste and other trash.
She picks up the trash items one by one carefully from the waters and places them in a bag on her boat to clean the lake inch-by-inch.
