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The anthropology of plastics in India
On the western edge of Mumbai, far outside the glinting sheen of the rising skyscrapers, near the tidal flats that mark the city’s ebb into the sea, lies the Deonar dumping ground. Mumbai started sending its waste to this outpost in 1927, making the …