Creating a clean and green India

by Rohan Sinha Author Although an intrinsic part of our everyday routines, the dustbin's role as a mediator of changing waste practices has rarely been considered. As bins become reconfigured as environmental technologies for contemporary recycling programmes, is argued that they provide a revealing indicator of new waste through a number of past and present bin technologies, showing how they represent changing waste meanings, practices and responsibilities. The future of the bin and how adopting a bin‐centred approach can help researchers and planners reconceptualize waste ‘problems’ and so reconsider waste management strategies are speculated upon.

The fast growing group in terms of members has come up with numerous ways to make India Clean. The group while hosting discussion on the following topic should issues of urban and rural cleanliness be tackled differently and can a single approach provide solutions to all problems related to cleanliness suggests below mentioned worth implementing points:

1.    City to be planned with dust bins placed at good intervals. Have enough paid toilets and washrooms.

2.    Fine people who are caught littering and send repeat offenders to work at a social centre to give their free services.

3.    Reward those who keep their surroundings clean including industrial houses.

4.    Most waste found in rural area is biodegradable. This should be used to make compost. Urban areas should segregate dry and wet waste.

5.    Use celebrities and TV ads to educate people about cleanliness and encourage them to keep their surroundings clean.

To avoid manual scavenging the suggestions received were to pass a law. Also municipal corporations who practise it should be made aware of alternatives and fined heavily if found breaking the rule. The other suggestion was to go for competition for a green toilet. Many members suggested that many a times municipal corporations have machines to clean but they lie in neglect and manual scavenging continues. This as per the members should be stopped as soon as possible. Members also suggested construction of bio-toilets in rails and creating community toilets in villages. However, most suggested that the evil practice of manual scavenging can be only stopped by educating and inspiring people.

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