I have been in Bangalore for the past few years and i have always loved travelling. I tend to notice the beauty, uniqueness of nature and also the bad impact man has created in the environment..Once I happened to see the pollution caused by burning of waste and that made me think about it for a while.
Many areas, the waste dumped is cleaned everyday, but few others remain untouched causing environment degradation and finally leading to burning of waste . That brings me to the topic “Burning of waste”.
When do people burn waste? why do people burn waste? Is there no alternative to this? The answer lies with us but we do not care about the nature which has given lot of things to us..
People or the employees of the municipal council themselves has found an easy way for solving the solid waste management problem in the city limits. Just light a fire to heaps of accumulated garbage and forget it. This is the system being followed in some areas.
It makes the work easier by burning the garbage, especially at parks, where people seek refuge for getting fresh air.
It pollutes the environment and the officials who take steps to conserve the environment themselves turns blind eye towards the issue. By burning garbage at the dustbins or accumulated waste on the streets, the life of the innocent public are put into a lot of hardship as they have to bear the smoke for the whole day.
Some of the residents also complain of breathing problems. The waste burned is not only dry waste, but it is a mixture of plastic waste, rotten waste, old clothes and others, which is said to emit toxic vapors.
The burning of plastic emits chlorine, bromine vapors which indirectly affects the ozone layer. The once pure fresh air is turning poisonous.
If the waste management and segregation steps are taken properly, it will reduce the pollution and also the environmental degradation that it causes. I hope that happens in the future.