Image via WikipediaHow many of us are really bothered about what the hell happen to the waste that we throw out of our houses everyday? For the scope of discussion, let ourselves limit to the problem of solid waste generated in the households, hotels, shopping malls, big industries & so on. We don't really care too much about the problem because it hardly surfaces up & touches our lives. You can find all the stats about waste on the internet & even in some of the links attached below. So, I am not going into much of the details of it as far as the stats are concerned. But I am going to focus on India's solid waste problem. India is indeed a big country & with it's sheer big size, it inherits it's own problems as well. One of the least cared problem is the problem of solid waste management. India's GDP growth rate is one of the best in the entire globe. But with that sky rocketing growth, there comes the problem of incresed consumarism & increased waste being created. Of course, bigger chunk of it comes from the urban, densely populated areas where one can find middle class society & slum areas outnumbering it. I am littlebit doubtful how much solid waste is a problem in the Indian villages because people living in the villages battle for their daily livelihood, high consumerism is an alien word for them. So, we reach to the dirty, filthy & one of the worst livable places in India...the slums..! Who are the people living in those slums? Those are- in sophisticated words- "Low income groups"- who support needs of the population living in posh societies. There are maids, laundry boys, sweepers, hawkers & so on. I think the population in the posh residential complexes & bungalows are able to meet their basic needs because people living in the slums lend their hand.
So, all the wrappers, plastic bottles, cans, unwanted stuff goes to your dustbin, travels through a large conveyor system & finally reaches the dumping site maintained by the local governing body. There is ahrdly any scientific thinking given to the development of such dump yards. There could be a river flowing near it, or there could be a village nearby. All get contaminated- not to mention of the soil getting contaminated! There is no stoppage to the waste coming in there.
Seeing the waste disposal site, I remember the movie "Wall-E"! You gotta watch the movie to understand our future...700 years in time..(If at all we survive!)
So, the waste which is not biodegradable will remain there for years together polluting our beautiful planet. The problem indeed is high consumerism, but we have to find out the solution to the non biodegradable things coming with high consumerism. Only then we will arrive at doing something good for our planet. I don't see any scope for people's attitude regarding shopping, buying stuff in excess, eating more than needed change in the near future. At best we can offer them the choices which are green, non polluting, & sustainable. How about filling hydrogen in your SUV? Or, how about a chips wrapped in a biodegradable wrappers? What if we get a chance to recycle our domestic waste & make some money out of the generated fertilizer? We would love to opt for those choices, aren't we? So, there is a need to invest in the R & D of such things...may be then we would be able to reduce the problem of huge chunks of solid waste produced to some extent..!! Hope we would be able to do it..!!
God bless planet earth!
So, all the wrappers, plastic bottles, cans, unwanted stuff goes to your dustbin, travels through a large conveyor system & finally reaches the dumping site maintained by the local governing body. There is ahrdly any scientific thinking given to the development of such dump yards. There could be a river flowing near it, or there could be a village nearby. All get contaminated- not to mention of the soil getting contaminated! There is no stoppage to the waste coming in there.
Seeing the waste disposal site, I remember the movie "Wall-E"! You gotta watch the movie to understand our future...700 years in time..(If at all we survive!)
So, the waste which is not biodegradable will remain there for years together polluting our beautiful planet. The problem indeed is high consumerism, but we have to find out the solution to the non biodegradable things coming with high consumerism. Only then we will arrive at doing something good for our planet. I don't see any scope for people's attitude regarding shopping, buying stuff in excess, eating more than needed change in the near future. At best we can offer them the choices which are green, non polluting, & sustainable. How about filling hydrogen in your SUV? Or, how about a chips wrapped in a biodegradable wrappers? What if we get a chance to recycle our domestic waste & make some money out of the generated fertilizer? We would love to opt for those choices, aren't we? So, there is a need to invest in the R & D of such things...may be then we would be able to reduce the problem of huge chunks of solid waste produced to some extent..!! Hope we would be able to do it..!!
God bless planet earth!
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