We Will Burn Plastic Waste - In Daulatabad-upon-the-Sea

The open areas around Islam Colony - and this must be typical of all slums, throughout India - are awash with plastic waste. Dirty, dirty, dirty.


As far as "recycling" goes, what is happening here is some EVIL nonsense: poor people pushing cycle-rickshaws collect plastic waste - and these recycled black plastic bags are used to carry food items, from chicken to fish, to fruit and vegetables. These black coloured recycled plastic bags are not meant for food. They are POISONOUS.


What I have decided is that, in Daulatabad-upon-the-Sea, we will burn all plastic waste. We will install incinerators for the purpose. Plastic bags may be "non-biodegradable" but they burn easily, being made up of petroleum. For food items we will allow only virgin polymers - that are "food grade." No poisons.


I have also arrived at the conclusion that the DDA is an EVIL organisation. It is they who have laid out Vasant Kunj. It is they who "allot" land. They design all the roads - without footpaths, and with T-junctions everywhere. The T-junction opposite the D2 Market now has some very big traffic lights - and, as I told someone, soon they will build a flyover, too. They are in the flyover business, after all. The whole of South Delhi has been laid out in T-junctions and all the flyovers built over the last 25 years have not managed to solve the traffic snarls. Nor has the Metro Rail.


But it is while living here in Islam Colony that I really realised how very EVIL the DDA is. The open areas full of plastic waste are also an open drain - and it is the dirty water of the flatowners that drains out into this plain, fouling everything up, and spreading disease, too, I bet. The DDA owns the field, the DDA owns the keekar forests, and the DDA has decided that these open spaces should be flooded with dirty, drain water. What a creepy organisation!


There is no point really in investing more Capital in this area. It is best abandoned. So that all the Capital can be gainfully invested in a New City, a Great City, a Clean City, a city in which plastic waste will be incinerated, a city in which if your refuse fouls up another's property it will be a Tort, and you will have to fork out adequate financial compensation towards a clean-up.


Incentives Matter!