The need to recycle

07 December, 2016

In the past few days, several articles on lead and other heavy metals like cadmium and chromium being found in soft drinks have appeared in the print and electronic media. These deeply disturbing findings reminded me of my own unsettling experience which I want to share.

I arrived in New Delhi last year following my posting as Ambassador to Germany, and having spent a significant portion of the first several days settling down, managed to acquire a set of remote controlled devices. As one would expect, the batteries went dead. I gathered them in a small plastic bag and headed to an electronics store in the neighbourhood to deposit them in a recycling unit. Alas, it was too ambitious. Read more:

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