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Where does the garbage really come from?
Interview
"A rag pickers story"
Sandraj Marwah is a rag picker. Earlier he worked at the landfill, but with help from the NGO Chintan, he is now working as a sweeper. The job is to collect garbage from private homes and carry it onto the truck that transports it to the landfill.
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Attitude towards garbage - "Making use out of waste is a good thing"


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Waste management in India
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Rag pickers
 

Solution for a better future
     
 Blaming the unaware  

We went out on the streets of Delhi to find out what people actually know about the environmental issues affecting India and the world today. We asked different people three questions, all in relation to the myth: "The poor is the biggest polluter".
 
If it is so that poverty is the biggest polluter, can we blame the poor and the uneducated? Are they even aware of what they are possibly causing?


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