Isolated towns face a growing plastic pollution crisis, with no waste management, and single-use plastic flooding the market.
India, Naitwar
Waste
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Cows eat plastic waste in the town’s stream.
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Locals say that plastic is destroying the waterways and that cattle is eating it.
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Resident describes how towsnpeople dump plastic with no regard for where it will go.
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Hidden from the main street, plastic waste accumulates behind homes.
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Local farmer explains how single-use plastic does not decompose.
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Local farmer tends to her trees.
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Schoolgirls are also affected by the accumulating plastic waste in their community.