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- Editorial by Sunita Narain
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- Stories from Down To Earth
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Sunita Narain |
Editor, Down To Earth |
Twitter: @sunitanar
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WASTE TRADE: IS THIS RIGHT? |
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I am looking at massive mounds of garbage, but with a difference. This garbage — from our houses — has been sorted, segregated and made into almost neat piles of different stuff. I am at what can be called Asia’s largest wholesale market of junk — located in Delhi’s Tikri Kalan — obviously on the outskirts of the city, because our waste must be out of sight and out of mind.
We then go to the Haryana side of the market, located in Bahadurgarh district, adjoining Delhi. Here again, there are mounds and mounds of sorted and unsorted garbage. While the Delhi market is formal in some way — the land has been provided by the Delhi Development Authority—the Haryana side is located on agricultural land.
I asked farmers why they had leased their lands for this waste trade. They pointed fingers at development, ironically called the Modern Industrial Estate. Here, they say that the industry has pumped industrial discharge into the ground through reverse boring. As a result, their groundwater is contaminated; agriculture is not possible. We could see chimneys and smoke from this “Modern” ground… Continue Reading
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