Comments on: Trash Planet: China http://earth911.com/news/2009/08/10/trash-planet-china/ Make Everyday Earth Day Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: HT http://earth911.com/news/2009/08/10/trash-planet-china/comment-page-1/#comment-33410 HT Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:55:40 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21785#comment-33410 It is an interesting article. Waste and pollution are gravely harming China's air, water, land, and people. How long will it be before the Chinese government plan to enforce an effective law to save and protect its environment? Isn't already too late in some cases to reverse the process? It is an interesting article. Waste and pollution are gravely harming China’s air, water, land, and people. How long will it be before the Chinese government plan to enforce an effective law to save and protect its environment? Isn’t already too late in some cases to reverse the process?

]]> By: Nalini http://earth911.com/news/2009/08/10/trash-planet-china/comment-page-1/#comment-31010 Nalini Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:07:25 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21785#comment-31010 Interesting article. But was surprised to see waste pickers mentioned as interference and listed as a problem in landfills. In fact waste pickers are the only people who are involved in collecting smallest of recyclable that even any segregation machine fails to do. They are the pillars of robust recycling industry in India. It is estimated that one waste picker produces 25 jobs in the recycling chain Having said that we do feel that working in dump is not an appropriate place for anyone; all recyclables should be recovered before it reaches the dump. So, source segregation and decentralized waste processing is only the option. Thanks Interesting article. But was surprised to see waste pickers mentioned as interference and listed as a problem in landfills.
In fact waste pickers are the only people who are involved in collecting smallest of recyclable that even any segregation machine fails to do.
They are the pillars of robust recycling industry in India. It is estimated that one waste picker produces 25 jobs in the recycling chain
Having said that we do feel that working in dump is not an appropriate place for anyone; all recyclables should be recovered before it reaches the dump. So, source segregation and decentralized waste processing is only the option.

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