Waste Management Chinese Style

Chinese goods are renowned for the cheapness. But the price tag hides
more than it reveals.
The ordinary battery is one good example. Sold at a ridiculously low
price, these things are used to power other cheaper Chinese imports
like clocks and dolls. Ofcourse they do not last as much as the higher
priced indian ones, but there in lies the catch. The Chinese take used
batteries from their back yard, package it, and offer it at a price
that no one can match. Indians, keeping an eagle eye for the cheapest
replacement, fall for it. The battery is just the bait, the garbage
packaged inside is the real deal. Once the battery dies, which is at
best one week, the Indian throws it away. And "away" is everywhere.
Which means that we have a garbage problem caused by the large scale
import of cheap Chinese stuff. Look at all the used batteries in our
houses. If you paid high for the good Indian stuff, you have, say, 10
used batteries lying around. If you bought the fractionally priced
Chinese stuff, you are lookng at 100 used batteries. Ofcourse, we
conveniently dump it in the waste basket where it eventually reaches
the dumping ground and poisons everything.
What we have just done is paid the Chinese to dump their garbage in
our backyard. And this is the same with almost all ridiculously priced
Chinese stuff. Cheap plastic dolls, alarm clocks etc.? They are
recycled from the plastic bags that are piling up in Shanghai.
So the next time you reach out for the Rs. 10 chinese stuff, think
about the garbage you are just going to pay for. Buy the Indian stuff,
as this is the "right" price.

Mind you, this will not make much of a dent since the poor will still
buy the cheap stuff and continue to dump these products in the nearest
sewage canal to cause it to flood in the next monsoon. Another reason
the poor will continue to buy cheap Chinese stuff is because they do
not have the literacy and the money to read this message at the
nearest internet cafe. Nevertheless, as Gandhiji said : "What you do
would be insignificant, but you must do it". (or something like
this).
.

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