Caste, as Doron and Jeffrey show, is the bulwark on which India’s waste management industry operates. The ideas and practices of caste haunt India’s efforts to cope effectively with the waste of a vast, urbanizing population. To what extent has the Swachh Bharat campaign been able to address India’s waste problem? What does the future augur for India’s waste management, and the ways in which this is going to influence public health, policy-making and social change? ■A toothpaste tube is one of the toughest objects to recycle because of the persistence of wet waste within dry waste.

Source: Mint April 13, 2018 06:33 UTC