Lalitamrita Dasi: Anybody coming to India from Western countries is shocked to find out that here it is common for people to throw garbage just anywhere on the streets. In Vedic times, and in the not so distant past, all of the waste was recycled, which was not so difficult to organize as only organic items were used in household activities. Therefore, in India somehow the habit remained that people do not bother much with cleaning the piles of junk lying around. However, today, because the junk is now consists mostly of plastic bottles and bags, it just never seems to dissolve into the earth again. Thus this is a big problem that streets and roads are covered with garbage that doesn’t decay.
The managers of the spiritual city of Mayapur are therefore doing their best to keep the ISKCON premises clean from garbage waste. Big blue containers are available everywhere for pilgrims to dispose their garbage. But what happens with this waste when the bins are emptied? Instead of putting it all in one big pile the managers have come up with a recycling program called „Zero waste Mayapur“.
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