World Environment Day 2023: Photos Show Pathetic Condition of Waste Management in India

By: FPJ Web Desk | June 06, 2023

World Environment Day is being celebrated annually since 1973 with a motive to protect the planet, as per UNEP. This year the day is being observed with the theme Beat Plastic Pollution.

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People walk past a semi-dry drain choked with garbage at Taimoor Nagar in Delhi on Monday.

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Men pull a tri-cart carrying garbage in New Delhi on Monday.

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A water body filled with plastic garbage and other waste at Baba Demb, on World Environment Day, in Srinagar.

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A ragpicker collects plastic waste at Baba Demb, on World Environment Day.

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A woman walks past a sewage drain canal full of garbage.

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School children walk past a semi-dry drain choked with garbage at Taimoor Nagar.

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Ragpickers look for re-usable items from a Municipal Waste Dumping site in Prayagraj.

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Ragpickers collect plastic waste at Baba Demb, on World Environment Day, in Srinagar on Monday.

PTI / S. Irfan

A dirty beach in Mumbai

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A worker trying to clean a garbage-strewn beach in Mumbai.

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