This Indian city takes #Trashtag to the next level
5 years ago by nylonbase · 1038 Likes · 6 comments · Popular
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· 5 years ago
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Indore instituted a bold series of reforms. Plastic bags were banned, public dumpsters removed. People were forbidden to breed animals and livestock in public, 200~ toilets were adding along with plumbing and special task forces were put on patrol daily to stop people from shitting in the streets. They instituted a public home garbage collection service which charges a modest fee and invested in trucks. They raised worker attendance for sanitation employees from an average of 10-40% to 90% by laying off 600 workers, suspending hundreds more, and hiring 1,000 new workers as well as instituting bio metrics to confirm attendance and placing pressure on supervisors to get workers to show up and do their jobs. They used Lot of simple solutions to make big changes which also lowered the cases of dysentery and malaria. They still face the challenge of cleaning the river khan which is full of sewage, industrial waste, and home waste and feeds into rivers downstream polluting them too- but...
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guest_
· 5 years ago
... it seems like they’ve done a great job and are very proud. Best of luck to them.
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princessmonstertru
· 5 years ago
What is a "zero waste city"?
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guest_
· 5 years ago
In essence a “zero waste city” is one in which effectively waste in the form of refuse has been eliminated. There may still be some small percentage of waste however. What that means specifically is that there is no trash. No trash is burned, landfilled, or dumped in water but is either reused, recycled, or composted. Legal or social bans of non reusable and or excessive packaging are one easy way of helping the process. Laws and social pressure on manufacturers to make goods which are designed in a way which they can be easily recycled or repurposed is another. Social and legal policies to support the process are helpful as is an infrastructure of sorting like materials, collections, and processing. It does not refer to other forms of pollution, and in itself is not the “end all” of “green” but it is a corner stone component of sustainable living and generally has halo effects in overall observable cleanliness and environmental improvement.
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princessmonstertru
· 5 years ago
Thank you
guest_
· 5 years ago
My pleasure.
