Dumping ground
A portrait of the everyday scene at the dumping site of this locality. By the morning, the cleaning workers would be seen collecting the great garbage from the lanes and the many societies. They would as well clean the streets off the dust and the several biodegradable & non-biodegradable materials. The task is cumbersome and requires several level of efforts & mental strength. Our cleaning workers stand guarded in the eyes of the society carrying loads of historical disdain and they do this on a meagre salary. Thankfully, nowadays they do wear gloves & put on masks that they are provided by the authorities.
Collected material would then be segregated into dry and wet categories. Not to mention, but it also contains over-saturated items like sanitary pads, syringes, used huggies, chemicals containing medicines and so on, which impact the health of the workers if they come in contact with it. For the whole lockdown phase, they have been in direct contact with the used covid-related products & to much of our disdain, we may not know the statistics of how many of them laid down their lives in this situation & if their family has been compensated for this?
Material is then put on a vehicle to be later transported somewhere where it may be dumped on a landfill/or a river/ or burned to ashes & released into the air. There are available technologies where some of the material is made used to be converted into Methane gas & later to be sold in the market. Cool? Yeah!
This site feels closer & cleaner than our bedrooms. Personally, I feel that it is more sacred than our praying halls. Great leaders like Gandhi have emphasized our understanding of cleanliness with spirituality... At the moment, a homeless dog is standing over it and looking desperately for some food to quench its hunger.
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