New Delhi, February 22 India needs to increase its waste management capacity and ensure that everyone has access to waste disposal to tackle the increasing plastic pollution in the country, said Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup.
The Netherlands-based non-profit organization, which develops technologies to remove plastic waste from the oceans, announced a new initiative last week to deploy barriers on the Trombay and Malad waterways in Mumbai to stop the flow of plastic waste into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The barriers, which will be placed before the arrival of the monsoon season, are expected to collect at least 62 tonnes of plastic waste per year once fully operational.
"While in the long run, expanding waste management capacity will limit plastic pollution, in the short term, placing barriers will help clean the oceans and coasts. These interceptors will essentially give cities time to fix the disposal problem," Slat told