india\'s mounds of garbage can only be overcome through recycling, expert says

India has some of the dirtiest cities in the world, but its mission to clean up the streets will depend on whether it can completely change the way waste is recycled, an expert said.
On October, Prime Minister Modi launched the Clean India campaign,
Efforts were made to modernize the national health system by installing toilets, cleaning dirty streets and removing garbage dumps.
Sunita Narain, director of the New Delhi Center for Science and Environment, said India\'s cities were inundated with garbage because they did not have a waste management system.
\"We are generating more and more waste because we are becoming a society that is getting richer,\" MS Narain said . \".
\"We are using more and more products with more plastic [and]
So there is more waste.
Ms. Narain said that it is now the government that is currently involved by so-
Known as the \"scavenger\" and the garbage shop owner, they are looking for items for sale in the stinky garbage dump.
Ravi is one of about 300,000 pickers in the capital of Delhi who are cleaning up piles of rotten garbage every day.
\"We found old clothes here, plastic, cans, iron,\" said Ravi . \"
He tidied up dirty and discarded items at the Gaziapur dump in northern Delhi, where the rubbish piled up almost as high as the towering apartment building nearby.
\"The garbage in the whole city is coming,\" said Ravi . \"
\"The gas is formed here, there is a fire at night, and we leave here before dark because there is too much heat and gas.
\"Five years ago, three of the city\'s four dumps reached capacity, but the garbage continued to pile up, and a study by the University of JNU found that nickel, zinc content were high and arsenic and lead in the Delhi landfill.
MS Narain said that currently by rag-
Pickers like Ravi are untenable in the long run.
\"We have to look at how to give them dignity in the work they do so that we can recycle our waste and make it a resource,\" she said . \".
India cannot waste;
India can only afford a waste management model in which everything wasted is converted into resources.
\"According to the Indian Center for Science and Environment, India has only recycled domestic waste.
The key, Narain MS, is not to build more landfill sites, but to reduce waste generation.
She said policymakers hope Health models in countries like Australia will find a solution that should focus on recycling at the community level.
\"We should stop thinking that we are going to be Australia,\" she said . \".
\"Australia is a very wasteful society.
It has a lot of money to control waste.
We will not have the money to deal with our waste.
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