In the modern times of runaway consumerism waste management has become a huge challenge. Modern day states and governments are finding it very difficult to manage the solid waste. It has created mega difficulties and we are facing such times where it threatens the urban as well as rural life. The developed nations have been very particular about meeting this challenge, resorting to newer methods of waste management. The segregation of the waste at the source is done in such a way that almost the entire degradable waste is dumped at the source, even converted into something productive. Whatever waste is then left is disposed off in the most scientific manner so that there is less pollution and it doesn’t affect the environment. But in our part of the world things are really worse.
The mountains of waste can been seen at places and it is simply taking on proportions that are unmanageable. In the big Indian cities this is becoming an environmental catastrophe. In our state of J&K things are far more worse than anywhere else. Srinagar city is host to every kind of waste. You travel any place, drive on any road, walk down any street and it greets you with an offensive smell, and filthy sight. One wonders those closer to these dumping yards, how they manage to live. This waste has also choked our water bodies. There are many brooks that have breathed last because too much waste was dumped into them and they couldn’t survive. One of the most stark sites are the green meadows that God has bestowed us with. We have spoiled these green meadows. The news about the meadows in Baderwah getting spoiled because of the solid waste is very worrying. Similar is the fate of the scenic spots in Kashmir. Elsewhere in the world people crave for such beautiful scenes, but here we are behaving criminally; our negligence is marring the beauty that was given to us by nature. One can only appeal the people to mend their behaviour and also ask the administration to take note of this grave danger to our environment.