Bangalore is the major city of India's growing economy. In the past, it was the cleanest in India. However, the city has turned this upside down because the Indian government failed to manage the landfill accordingly with the booming economy. Those huge piles and piles of trash also are contaminating daily water supply, river, and streets; thereby, causing health problems. The preceding week, the garbage transporters started to protest, claiming that they have not received any wages for months. Without being picked up by them, the trashes mounted in streets of a town, named Garden City, exacerbating the situation. The city's infrastructure is such a turmoil that its wastes are no place to go. Previously, the companies paid the truckers to dump the garbage to somewhere unknown of. In 2000, even though the "door-to-door trash pick-up program" was developed, where the trashes are gone remains as a secret. Population growth also serves as a catalyst to worsen at this critical point of landfills swallowing the lakes, rivers, and lands. Since the local people cannot rely on government anymore, they are trying to build an N.G.O to control this issue.
It's a great article to talk about a lot of things such as dark sides of capitalism, current environmental issues, lack of reaction by the government, formation of N.G.O to tackle the problems, and so on.
Source: India's Plague, Trash, Drowns Its Garden City During Strike
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