Do we have any garbage management plans in this country? I am wondering whether the effort that I put up in locating a dustbin for my trash is worth it. Does the garbage thrown in the dustbin and thrown on a railway track end up at the same place. In this case that place is railway track of course. I have seen so many instances when the sweeper on the railway station empties the bin on the tracks itself.
We Indians have a very poor sense of cleanliness. For us, it means keeping our immediate surrounding clean. Few minutes ago a woman sitting on the berth above me cleaned her seat, put all that garbage in a polythene and just dropped it below. It seems as if other person's right to neat and clean surroundings is oblivious to them.
To certain extent all of us are party to these crimes. There is always a place in the neighbourhood where all the garbage is thrown. That way our homes are clean but what about our surroundings. In the foreign countries that I have visited, garbage is separated by each individual into the disposable and non-disposable groups. Some other countries have very high rate of recycling of non-disposable waste. I would love to see something like this in India as well. I feel such a guilt in throwing a paper and a broken bulb in the same bin. With the population that we have, we may soon turn this country into a big waste land.
We Indians have a very poor sense of cleanliness. For us, it means keeping our immediate surrounding clean. Few minutes ago a woman sitting on the berth above me cleaned her seat, put all that garbage in a polythene and just dropped it below. It seems as if other person's right to neat and clean surroundings is oblivious to them.
To certain extent all of us are party to these crimes. There is always a place in the neighbourhood where all the garbage is thrown. That way our homes are clean but what about our surroundings. In the foreign countries that I have visited, garbage is separated by each individual into the disposable and non-disposable groups. Some other countries have very high rate of recycling of non-disposable waste. I would love to see something like this in India as well. I feel such a guilt in throwing a paper and a broken bulb in the same bin. With the population that we have, we may soon turn this country into a big waste land.
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Filth breeds filth... i wish all at least learn to use a dustbin there after can we hope that they use it to seperate disposable and non disposable. In India breaking rules is an act of fashion and strength, for those who follow it are pressumed to be weak... without any change of mindset i wonder if rules can change anything.
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