surat recovery of plastic material from the stomachs of cows and stray animals is known but now a citybased researcher has highlighted how snakes too are vulnerable to plasticdikansh parmar who is doing his phd on snakes has described in a paper two cases where he recovered plastic bottles and a magnetic tape that snakes had eaten parmars paper plastic ingestion by the indian snakes ptyas mucosa and coelognathus helena helena published in brazilbased magazine phyllomedusa aims to create awareness about singleuse plastic india recently imposed a ban on singleuse plasticparmar a student of veer narmad south gujarat university vnsgu describes in the paper the first case of how he recovered five empty bottles of homeopathic medicine from an indian rat snake i went to attend a snake rescue call at vesu and while trying to rescue the snake it spewed empty plastic bottles while trying to escape a total of five bottles it spewed said parmar later on examination of nearby places parmar found that mice had delivered babies on discarded homeopathic medicine bottles lying in waste the young mice were stuck with the bottles and the snake ate them together he explained in another case a common trinket snake popularly known as roop sundari had accidentally eaten magnetic tape used in audio cassettes a 20foot long tape was recovered from the snakes body on a snake rescue call i noticed a piece of the tape coming out from its anus i tried to remove it but it was not coming out easily he added the snake was given food and it egested the tape after two days due to timely action i could save the lives of both the snakes but how many animals and birds die when they do not get help asks a worried parmar