Environment Day: Recycle the waste

Lavanya Prabhakaran Updated - June 04, 2015 at 05:40 PM.

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A man collecting plastic waste for recycling from the polluted Mithi River running through Dharavi Slum.
Photo: Paul Noronha
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A boy with sack of plastic drinking bottles at a railway station. He earns his living by colleting plastics for recycling. ▲
Hope for Survival! View of 15 acres of mangroves in the mudflats between Sewri and Trombay.
Photo: PAUL NORONHA
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Workers sort plastics for recycling at a unit in Dharavi.
Photo: Paul Noronha
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Where will it lead to?
Photo: PAUL NORONHA
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Recycled waste on rooftops in Dharavi slum, Mumbai.
Photo: Paul Noronha
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Municipal Corporation workers removing garbage from the sea at Gateway of India ▲
A shrub grows on top of a chimney of a mill that has been shut down in Mumbai. Probably it is the place fit for its survival away from human interference ▲
Indian Roller (nilkant) at the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve. As the plaque says, the Pandharpauni Meadow is now free of human disturbance with the villagers being relocated. ▲

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness on importance of healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive actions as well as to create public awarenss that everyone is responsible for saving the environment and not just the government or single organisation. Text and photos by Paul Noronha

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