If you are a lover of shopping, you would have noticed how big brands are slowly changing their delivery packets from plastic to cardboard ones. If you aren’t a shopper, social media has definitely accustomed you with some dreaded pictures of waste. Has it not?
When was the last time you bought a packet of chips because you were starving? Yesterday perhaps! If you did, did you notice where you were throwing it when you finished chewing those beautifully crispy fried potatoes? The last time you went on a trip to another country, did you not remark how the place was so much cleaner than your home city? Or did you just again come back and throw the plastic can out of the car window, same way you did, last time?
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Now, don’t get annoyed! We are done with the blame game! This post is not about that, it is about something astonishing, surprising and not-so-happy astounding! Did you know that about 46% of the solid waste in Delhi has been left unprocessed? The landfills are overflowing and the wastes are growing each minute! Surprising as it may be, the waste amount has crossed leaps and bounds! So much that the parliamentary committee has recommended that the ministry responsible must devise strategies to plant more trees and create green belts across borders of state.
A landfill waste which has accumulated in Ghazipur is gigantic. It is tall and fat! So tall that the world heritage site of UNESCO, our very own Qutub Minar is being challenged of its height!
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The threat is real this time. It has been measured that the height of this mounting waste is 65 meters, which is by the way, only 8 meters less than the grand tall Qutub Minar.
This is not an isolated phenomenon which will only cause air pollution but government says that this mounting waste at Ghazipur will in turn affect our foreign exchanges as tourism is likely to be negatively affected as a result of this incident. The attempt to plant more trees is the probable way which has been devised by the government to reduce pollution but the fate of this tall waste is still under immense speculation!
Many other landfills have already been exhausted only to be forcefully fed with more waste. A massive uproar is on the way to find solutions by setting up power plants and green belts, instead of blaming each other!
However, if we continue in this way, we might also enter into another record in a few years, when the heap would finally reach Qutub Minar’s height or maybe higher still!
