An environmental activist calls garbage problem a ‘ticking time bomb’ that will ultimately bury the nation’s cities unless its 1.3 bn people stop littering at will. Photo: APMumbai: Lawyer Afroz Shah moved to Mumbai with a dream of looking out at the wild, blue Arabian Sea. Afroz Shah participates in clean up drive at the Versova beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India. The country is “drowning in trash,” says Chitra Mukherjee of the New Delhi-based Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group. “The citizen has to realize that ‘this is my waste, nobody is going to take care of it but me,’” says Mukherjee.

Source: Mint September 09, 2017 07:07 UTC