Waste management in India –HCCB
Waste management is one of those things that all of us shy away from. Give any man a chance to tidy up his surroundings, and I am sure he will shy away from the task before him. Also note that when I say tidy up his surroundings, I don’t mean his immediate surroundings, but places like his neighbourhood, areas in the city that are choked with soot and filth, etc. This apathy towards a problem that we are collectively responsible for, is the reason that our planet is at the brink of its own doom. Plastic waste is a by-product of the manufacture of petrol, and comes with the caveat that they decompose very, very slowly. For instance, an ordinary bottle of plastic takes as much as 500 years to decompose in a landfill, while other forms, like lower grades of plastic used to make bags, take as many as 1000 years to decompose. But recycling plastic is a way out of this predicament. Times like this call for each one of us, to come to the frontlines and do their best to save the Ear...