Waste Management: A Critical Need

In recent times, reducing waste has become the main agenda of government, NGOs, and volunteers. They propagate this through posters and advertisements sometimes people get irritated and uncomfortable as no one likes forceful treatment. But, have you ever thought, what the Earth must be going through when you treat it the way it must never be treated? If some good suggestions can annoy you, give a thought about how the earth should react? And it does react, sometimes through nature’s disastrous floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. She throws back to us whatever we donate her, best examples are ocean disasters.

Waste is nothing but remnants of our used stuff. It can be vegetables, electronic devices, clothes, things of daily use etc. When the purpose is fulfilled, they are considered as waste. But, people are practicing reusing them by repurposing their utility since old times e.g. vegetable waste is used as fertilizer, clothes are used to sew bags and covers, etc. But, nowadays, due to progressive thinking, the concept of repurposing  has changed. Also, the industrialization has led in easy availability of their demands.  

The “Use and throw” concept of plastics has changed the mindset and added to heaps and piles of wastes. The plastic waste remains on the planet for several years. It takes hundreds to thousands of years to degrade plastic depending on the polymer it is made of! One may think of burning it up to solve the waste problem, but burning produces harmful gases that affect our environment.