Our little mushroom clouds
Toxic waste is a problem. Whose?
RE 0.70 buys one of the cheapest paracetamol pills in the Indian market. An essential drug, it needs to be kept inexpensive. Manufacturing such drugs has a much bigger cost that is never factored into the pricing: pharma factories release large quantities of slurry, often hazardous. This is dumped in places where people either do not know the effects of hazardous waste or are powerless to protest the dumping. In several cases, it is both, for it is not easy to hide toxic waste; if it doesn