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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
India’s trash mountains are a fetid symbol of the country’s plastic problem
Convenience stores, supermarkets, online shopping, and food delivery services. They all create an unprecedented amount of trash, especially single-use plastics. Environmentally conscious consumers are trying their best to sort out the trash for proper collection, whether to be recycled, incinerated, or dumped. So, their houses and communities are kept clean and the residents feel proud. But even if the trash is properly collected, is it properly handled? Are the plastic wastes, either sorted or mixed, all recycled properly?
It is estimated that approximately 70% of the plastic wastes are discarded in India. Large amounts of them are washed down to the Indian Ocean via the River Ganges. Others were dumped in the landfills with other biodegradable garbage and hazardous materials.
But don’t just blame on India or China. The US, Canada, and other developed countries had shipped their plastic wastes along with other unsorted garbage to China until last year when it was banned and have been shipping to other southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and the Philippines until they were recently rejected.
Among three “R”s, reduce, reuse and recycle, the reduction seems the most urgent and essential action needs to be taken decisively to tackle the plastic waste problem because there is only so much that even environmentally conscious people can do.
Enjoy reading the article and think if human ingenuity can someday overcome the disasters caused by human insanity.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/07/asia/india-plastic-waste-intl-hnk/index.html
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