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The tale of Plastic’s conquest of human society

‘It is one world. And it’s in our care. For the first time in the history of humanity, for the first time in 500 million years, one species has the future in the palm of its hands’-  David Attenborough, noted British broadcaster and biologist Opening note Residents in my area turn up in the streets with their waste buckets containing meticulously segregated wet and dry home waste so as to deposit it in the garbage collection vehicle that appear regularly in the early morning since last ten years or so. Door-to-door collection of domestic garbage has become order of the day in most of all the urban areas for which a solid waste management fee is levied on the residents. Environmental consciousness hasn’t however penetrated deep into the society in the entire spectrum of solid waste management system albeit the existence of legal framework for the same in India.  As an avid traveller, I am pained to notice the mounts of urban domestic waste along the highways that unfailingly mark the ar