A few strings of thought on waste and its manifestations 

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On Sundays, poor people of this place/ go out for a couple of hours/ engaging themselves in cleaning their immediate surroundings/ which is being littered/ by the callousness of the rich/ who have the rare reputation/ of leaving the lives of others unmanageably miserable/ by making their own lives/ more and more comfortable / and /discomforting for all the species/ of this very Planet they are living in.  69 words

2.

This voluntary noble gesture of the poor seems to be able to make some changes in the minds of those rich who move out in palatial cars and dump plastic carry-bags of wastes at remote corners of the street in the early hours of all days; a welcome attitudinal change in their way of life necessitated by the sublime behaviour of the poor which has the reflection of the philosophy our Gandhi has been able to promote across the world; show the other cheek, it is called - that is let the poor keep on cleaning up when the rich go littering. 100

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If followed across the spectrum, the rich would have to behave themselves in the immediate future because nothing is more disheartening and disgusting for ourselves than making someone clean our waste; a by-product of our own bloody lack of commitment, poor civic consciousness and dogging insensitivity to the very place we are part of; some call it ecosystem, or whatever name you may call it by, it, in my opinion, emphasizes a noble thought called coexistence.   75

4.

Waste, as matter of fact, has always been part of human life, and, of late, the quantity and quality and variety of wastes being generated by us humans is so huge, poor and great that waste management has become a big headache for the system as well as for the people in general who are generally are under the impression that they have the moral duty to generate waste and the State has the responsibility to clean it up; an utopian concept being propagated by the advocates of consumerism, retail and market economy. 90

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Need-based life, maximum utilization of finished products, responsible shopping, principle of localism, take only what is needed and give back as much as possible, ecological housekeeping, inclusive thinking, shunning luxuries, sharing wealth and showing compassion towards whatever is natural and national, in my opinion are potential instruments through which we will be able to tide over whatever issues that are getting generated by waste; something that we humans alone create. Ashamed aren’t you!