Massive piles of rubbish in front of Safdarjung Hospital, in Delhi

From the archive record

India is rapidly transforming itself into the largest rubbish dump in the world. Along Delhi and India, in general, rubbish is easily spotted. Sterilised locations like Hospitals are no different. We know that we have a serious garbage problem. But the problem is not about finding the right technology for waste disposal. The problem is how to integrate the technology with a system of household-level segregation so that waste does not end up in landfills, but is processed and reused. It is clear that there will be no value from waste, as energy or material, if it is not segregated. But this is where our waste management system stops short. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The col