How waste burning across India is quietly fuelling carbon crisis, pollution

Category : Plastic pollution | Location : Jammu and Kashmir  | Posted on 2026-04-13 06:49:53

This past winter, I drove on the Srinagar-Gulmarg Road in Kashmir four times after an average gap of two weeks between each trip. On each trip I found over 70 heaps of variegated plastic waste which included discarded snack packets, fast-food wrappers and single-use packaging lying scattered along the roadsides from Narbal to Tangmarg, roughly 10 km long distance on the Srinagar-Gulmarg Road.

Source: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/waste/how-waste-burning-across-india-is-quietly-fuelling-carbon-crisis-pollution