A man was filmed throwing an empty milk packet into the Brahmaputra river in Assam after a religious offering. The video prompted calls to respect nature and highlighted missing dustbins along the public riverfront.A man poured milk into the Brahmaputra river and tossed the carton in it as well. (Photos: Naveen Reddy/X) Offering milk to a river may be an act of faith, but leaving the packaging floating in the water is another matter.

A video from Assam’s Dibrugarh has gone viral due to this contradiction, showing a man pouring milk into the Brahmaputra as part of a religious ritual before throwing the empty carton into the river.The clip was shared on X by Bengaluru-based user Naveen Reddy, who questioned the man’s decision to discard the packaging in the water after completing the offering. Standing near the river, the man in the video was seen pouring milk from a carton into the Brahmaputra.

Once the milk was emptied, he tossed the carton into the river instead of disposing it off responsibly.Calling the act unacceptable, Reddy said that while offering milk to the river was a matter of religious faith, littering it with plastic packaging defeated the purpose of respecting a sacred water body. “Respect your beliefs, but respect nature too. Keep the Brahmaputra clean!” he wrote.Reddy also pointed out that he could not spot any usable dustbins along the stretch of the river accessible to the public.

His observation brought another aspect of the problem into focus: the need for proper waste-disposal facilities in areas frequented by visitors. Watch the video here:Brahmaputra River, Dibrugarh, Assam Pouring milk into the Brahmaputra as part of religious rituals is a matter of faith, but throwing the empty milk packets into the river afterwards is absolutely ridiculous.

Respect your beliefs, but respect nature too. Keep the Brahmaputra clean!

PS - I don’t see any dustbins placed on riverfront stretch. @dibrugarhpolice @mygovassam @CMOfficeAssam @assampolice— Naveen Reddy (@navin_ankampali) October 31, 2026The video comes amid renewed attention to river pollution and public attitudes towards waste disposal, following cleanup drives by Bittu Tabahi in Madhya Pradesh. Several videos shared by the content creator during his efforts to clean the Ajnar river showed people throwing garbage bags close to him even as he worked to remove waste from the water body.Those clips had drawn attention to the everyday challenges faced by people attempting to clean polluted rivers.

The latest video from Dibrugarh raises a similar question about individual responsibility: religious practices and public access to rivers need not come at the cost of keeping them clean.- Ends