Kerala turning into Waste's own country?
I belong to Kerala and its sad to see the outbreak of all kinds of fevers with the onset of the monsoons. I feel its to do with the mismanagement of the high quantity of waste being generated by the highly urbanised society, that Kerala is now. One fallout of the highly literate (wouldn't call it educated) society that Kerala is that disposal of waste in the earlier model of dumping in landfills is a thing of the past. With the high density of population, the size of landholdings have fallen which has resulted in most urban plots, at least the new ones, reduced to three to four cents. Therefore, when the Sarkar looks for dumping waste in any corner (Landfill), it is cheek a jowl with someone's prized plot and there starts the opposition, strikes, hartals et al to the idea and it gets shelved. In any case, the landfills in the form which existed at Vilappisala in Trivandrum and which resulted in leachate leaking into the groundwater and the spread of diseases is not poss...
