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              It’s in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. The rubbish we threw away has come back to haunt us. A special issue on the price of mismanaging garbage

              Updated - December 01, 2018 at 04:01 PM.

              In this package

              Recycling furiously: At Indore’s Central Processing Unit in Devguradia, plastic is cleaned, shredded and moulded into tiles that are used in sidewalks and drain pipes
              Binless in Indore
              Plenty plaint: The festival season in Malleswaram means garbage piled up in busy intersections such as Sampige Road
              Waste not, suffer not
              Start from scrap: In The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, residents of a beleaguered English island find ways to live on a potato diet
              Leaves, shoots — and other eats
              Past the tipping point: Despite reaching the saturation point in 2002, dumping in the landfill continues unabated even today
              Ghazipur is here to stay
              Toxic screen: Under the government E-Waste (Management) Rules 2016, only recycling centres certified by the Central Pollution Control Board can process electronics
              Getting around digital scrap
              Plastic in the poop
              Bye the rules

              Published on November 30, 2018

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