World Environment Day 2018: Management and segregation is way forward, not ban on plastic

By: Mridula Ramesh I recently discovered that this year’s theme for World Environment Day is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’. Predictably, there is a crescendo of events speaking about plastics, banning plastics, the obligatory sea-life-killed-by-plastic video, and the like. A life without plastic is hard to imagine – even at the very events held to eliminate plastic from our lives. Look at the photos closely: the mike handle, the flex backdrop, the lining of the paper cups used to serve water or beverages, the pens provided to the speakers or attendees – getting rid of…

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Salt…. regular salt that we use in cooking

Salt ….    Chemically it is called as sodium chloride or NaCl2.. When we were young, this salt was produced by evaporating sea water. That was the only source of getting salt and it was abundantly available. It was so cheap that even the grocery traders in Mumbai used to keep it unlocked outside their shop during night time. But in 1986 things changed. Tata’s approached Rajiv Gandhi government with a request to sell “Iodized Salt”. They gave a reason that people in North Eastern state suffer from iodine deficiency…

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