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DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION ENTWICKLUNG UND ZUSAMMENARBEIT International Journal ISSN 2366-7257 Twitter! Monthly e-Paper June 2016 Internet Primary schools Doping Digitalisation has Ample room for Malpractice X + a bearing on improvement in distorts global human rights rural India sports Garbage challenges Christian Guy/Lineair Title: Selling plastic waste in Mumbai. Photo: GKV Focus: Editorial Garbage challenges Consumerism’s side-effect Living amidst filth Humans produce waste. That is almost inevitable. The amount, how- Nepal’s capital Kathmandu needs better waste manage- ever, reflects the standard of living, but must not grow unchecked. As ment. There are many good proposals, but not much wealth and purchasing power increase, so does the consumption of goods, action, writes Roshan Sharma, a postgrad student at the and ever more waste is generated. The OECD countries produce about half of Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Page 14 the world’s waste, while Africa and South Asia produce the least. But things are changing. China has surpassed the USA and become the biggest genera- A system for collecting waste tor of garbage in absolute numbers. Emerging markets are generating ever more waste. In Waste is a by-product of urbanisation. It is noteworthy, though, that the Mumbai, the plastics industry is taking an approach that amount of municipal solid waste is growing faster than the urbanisation rate. involves local people in recycling, reports Oliver Möllenstädt of the German Association of Plastics Plastic is now found in the remotest corners of the world, making life more Converters (GKV). Page 17 comfortable and daily chores like fetching water easier.
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