Recycling Industry – Dharavi


One of the biggest issues facing the world today is the problem of waste management. Developed countries have long since recognized the need to recycle especially plastic waste and other non-biodegradable waste materials that otherwise pollute the environment and cause myriad problems for the delicate ecological balance of an already fragile world.

In developing countries however, waste is not properly managed or recycled…or is it? Recent studies have shown that India is about a head and shoulders ahead of its Western counterparts in terms of recycling dry waste into reusable articles, and the centre of this is the oft looked down upon “slum” Dharavi