Do you guys even know how much waste an American generates compared to an Indian? All this talk about proper disposal but zero talk about sustainability. If you actually observe Indians they have a significantly smaller carbon footprint. We tend to buy vegetables when we need them. Avoid heavily processed and packaged things which require huge cardboard boxes and cooling apparatus. Americans have groceries delivered via subscription boxes which consumes huge cardboard boxes. In fact Mysore has better trash Disposal than most American sanitation programs because they separate biomass from other trash, not just what’s thrown into the compost. But no American is aware of that because they are too stupid to learn anything past the narrative fed to them.
Instead of being proud of such Indian origin systems, we are too ashamed to even acknowledge that we can be better or cleaner.
Rather than shitting on Indians and aping the west, we should look within India for examples of cleanliness and models that are working in cities like Indore and Mysore.
India’s cleanest cities: Mysuru’s sophisticated decentralised wet waste-to-compost system
Mysuru has a sophisticated organic waste management system that has converted the organic waste of the city into compost for farming. The city also encourages d
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Instead of being proud of such Indian origin systems, we are too ashamed to even acknowledge that we can be better or cleaner.
Rather than shitting on Indians and aping the west, we should look within India for examples of cleanliness and models that are working in cities like Indore and Mysore.
