Circular economy is by the poor

We produce waste, destroy land and livelihoods, and then provide no option to the very poor but to make a business out of the same waste we have created and dumped

I am looking at massive mounds of garbage — but with a difference. This garbage — from your and my house and countless others — has been sorted, segregated and made into almost neat piles of different stuff. I am at what can be called Asia’s largest wholesale market for junk — located in Delhi’s Tikri Kalan — obviously on the outskirts of the city, because our waste must be out of sight, out of mind. We then go to the Haryana side of the market, located in Bahadurgarh district, adjoining Delhi. Here again, there are mounds and mounds of