Tour of the Garbage Chute

On Sun­day morn­ing, Roshan Rai from the NGO Dajreel­ing Ladenla Road Pre­rna, the same NGO I am work­ing with, lead a group of school kids on a tour of waste man­age­ment in Dar­jeel­ing.  The tour, which was part of the World Envi­ron­ment Day events, included a visit to the slaugh­ter­house and garbage chute.  Darjeeling’s waste man­age­ment sys­tem was designed in the 1930’s and hasn’t been updated since.  The impact on Darjeeling’s inhab­i­tants is sever, espe­cially with the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of scarce water sup­plies.  The goal of the waste man­age­ment vis­its is to shock the youth into action around reduc­ing resource intake and imple­ment­ing daily con­ser­va­tion practices.