“This is the only work we have,” said the 40-year-old, sorting through a pile of plastic bottles, bags, and cast-off electronics. Hundreds of garbage collectors live on the Yamuna’s banks in New Delhi, making $2 to $4 per day recycling plastic waste collected from the river. While Nath doesn’t think of himself as an environmentalist, he is one of a handful of New Delhi residents waging war against the tsunami of plastic threatening to swamp India. ADVERTISEMENTThey include a 9th-grade student who convinces posh restaurants to give up plastic straws and a businessman whose company makes plates and bowls from palm leaves. Some fancy restaurants in and around New Delhi are doing away with plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 04, 2018 10:07 UTC