09/30/2011
Trash
One of the first questions when I settled down in India: hey, how do we do with the trash? Instructions from my landlady: you put it in the trash can and you leave the can outside your door every evening. And every morning, magic, the trash is empty!!
And sorting out the trash?? No?? Okay okay…
A few months later, looking for my bike downstairs, I saw two women crouching in the trash of 4-5 big containers. So here is how the waste-sorting is done…
In India, nothing gets lost, everything gets transformed; Indians are the kings of recycling (at least at an individual level)...
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