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By: Payal Jain, In Environment & Ecology
Updated: Thursday, May 08, 2008
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It is funny and at the same time sad that most of the Indians don’t think twice before throwing garbage on the road, and when they are travelling abroad they even spit in their bathrooms projecting themselves to be well mannered or escaping the fine trouble. At the same time, they wonder how their country is not so clean as compared to the country they are visiting. This garbage is responsible for so many diseases which claim so many lives every year. Civic awareness is a growing need. Today, garbage management has become a critical. It is addressing, managing and attending to plastic waste or other waste at the ‘very source’ is missing. By ‘very source’ is meant the one who is throwing or discarding plastic of any kind, type or size and who needs to be made aware of attending, managing and addressing the issue at that very moment. Plastic has penetrated so swiftly in our day-to-day life that we forget that more than 60 per cent of waste usages have plastic in it.

The civic society has now accepted the segregation in terms of bio-waste or organic waste. The problem does not get solved or restricted by just that. The larger concern is plastic and other than plastic waste which comes from households, traders, businessmen who might not even be aware of such industrial garbage segregations. For them, understanding it as plastic and plastic-related material to non-plastic material is much easier and makes greater sense to conform with. Throwing (discarding) food wastes in plastic bags has become common practice for every household. They are completely unaware of its ill-effects. Some of the ill effects are discussed as follows:
1. Consumption by animals can be fettered.

2. Deformed and decomposed bio-waste develops unfriendly bacteria and bursts into stinking smell that may even be a cause of modern day epidemics.

3. Plastic waste mingled with other wastes blocks water, acting as a plug lo water running through the drainage system.

4. Water blockages cause hardships for local citizens and are also responsible for spreading diseases.

Plastic is a critical waste; a direct threat to the environment and so is fly ash, another equally tricky and critical waste.  Environment-threat-plastic and like-plastic waste dissenting critical wastes, if dealt with carding habits and developing a together, would mean that war
habit of addressing it 'at source' against it is won to a great extent. Compress use of wastes produced here and enabling whosoever is interested hands-on experiments. Discarding/throwing plastic waste in open should be banned. Heavy penalties should be imposed for throwing waste in or near the water bodies.

A small scale line can be planned at the source where hot fly ash availability is low. Social obligations like low-cost housing, relatively better tremor and earth-quake resistant building materials, low-cost compound walls, low-cost drainage systems, etc. can be met with increased use of the fly ash. Such practices also create scope for self employment. A self-supporting, small scale manufacturing unit has the potential to serve society. Conceptualizing the concept has the following advantages:
1. Engineering marvel and directly benefiting humanity.

2. By addressing two of the most critical wastes, direct threat to environment is reduced.

3. Creates massive scope for self-employment for economically underprivileged class, and

4. Reduces the need for massive dumping grounds/areas.

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