r/india • u/Then_Bag_4813 • 23h ago

Environment In a 1st, thousands of Kedarnath pilgrims bring back tonnes of trash from shrine

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/in-a-1st-thousands-of-kedarnath-pilgrims-bring-back-tonnes-of-trash-from-shrine/articleshow/134668861.cms
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u/Temporary_Writing_92 Maharashtra 21h ago

This is the first postive news wrt Indian civic sense ever posted here. Hoping to see more and kudos to the pilgrims.

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u/Slight-Butterfly793 12h ago

well it's good to see we Indians are learning the basics

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u/Prudent-Release9906 17h ago

Well done but throw it where? The sad part is waste management is so neglected in Indiia. In India there are major cities that don’t have a proper waste management program or enough bins.

I don’t care about anything else. If a party just campaigned on this one issue, I would canvas all my friends and family to vote for them.

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u/kochapi 16h ago

Working waste management in india collects trash from middle class neighborhoods and throw them where the poor lives

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u/just_sm_so_relax 14h ago

I suppose the logic is that bigger cities will have better waste management than Kedarnath. Even if the trash finally just ends up in a huge landfill in Dehradun, it's still better than thousands of trash sites all across Uttarakhand.

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u/Prudent-Release9906 14h ago

If there was better waste management in most cities I would fully understand but as others are pointing out this most likely ends up somewhere else

You wouldn’t say it is better if that trash ends up next to your home be it in a city or in some rural place .

I do applaud the citizens for wanting to do something but at a higher level the government has to take it forward.

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u/the_ultimate13 14h ago

And surprisingly there are no startups and entrepreneurs in this field....

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u/Prudent-Release9906 11h ago

They are there. It is one of my pet subjects. There are people in different states trying their best but ultimately you need a massive government effort like in China with how they recycle and run power plants at scale using managed waste.

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u/Marwaimusoont 10h ago

The most laborious part is separating the waste. This is why most of e-wate ends up in a landfill even though they have gold, silver and other valuable metals. It is very difficult to separate them from the circuit boards. Some of it can't be done manually.

At least for wet waste we can use them for compost, biogas, etc and there is decent growth in that sector.

Solid waste is whole another issue. Plastic recycling is a scam, the best way currently is to incinerate it.

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u/tera_chachu 15h ago

No way

Seriously?

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u/just_sm_so_relax 14h ago

Well, 5000 pilgrims did this, and I'm sure Kedarnath gets way more pilgrims than that. But still it's a remarkable initiative, and whoever started it needs to recognized and rewarded.

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u/Sharp_Emphasis176 12h ago

I don't believe this. This isn't my india that I know of./s