Third World Countries are resource-conserving and frugal.
- In 35 cities of over 1-million population, “dry” waste levels are approaching Western levels of over 1kg per capita per day.
- Waste-picking at street bins and dumps already supports 0.5% of large cities’ populations.
- Women (and children) form a large percentage of the waste-pickers.
- We sell newspapers, bottles and tins to doorstep waste-buyers and re-use a lot, discarding little.
- We generate only 50-100 gms of non-biodegradable waste per capita per day.
- Sadly, this small ecological footprint is seen as “backward” or under-developed.
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