Goa's Garbage and Trash Solutions
Once upon a time in Goa there was no garbage. Each family got through a few bottles of the local fire water, feni, once a year but no one had any money to by anything wrapped in plastic.
India in general has no waste disposal to speak of and it’s one of the last considerations of central government. There is a dump near Mapusa, in Goa, but for the most part the Goans deal with their trash by themselves.
The organic food, paper and cartons, they toss over the wall and wait for the dogs, crows and the cows, in particular, to come along and munch it all up. Heavy monsoon rains help things disintegrate fast. Trouble is, of course, that the cows also end up eating the plastic bags and then die from having their intestines all clogged up.
The other stuff, meaning anything plastic, in particular, gets burnt. The problem with burning plastic is that is solidifies inside the human lung and is highly toxic. The Goans don’t believe much in that kind of thing though they’re now more careful to do it near the houses of foreigners who run out screaming blue murder.
The other side of things is that mass tourism has led to massive pile-ups of plastic drinking bottles. With not enough good well water to go round and undrinkable tap water, tourists end up contributing tens of thousands of plastic water bottles to Goa’s dumps each year.
We need to get that mad fucker over from Cancun who built an island out of plastic bottles and planted mangroves on it.