Welcome to Let’s Talk Trash (The Site Will Be live In A Weeks Time)! I am Manik Thapar an Indo Canadian, who failed grade ten in India, was shipped off to boarding school in Australia, where during summer holidays, I scored my first Job at the age of 15, going door to door collecting money…

You know what is right for you, don’t you? Yet many of us don’t trust our own instincts. Guided by fear, judgement, constant peer pressure, pressure to succeed, pressure to portray a certain image to society many of us base our decisions on the norms of what is considered right in society.  Self doubt spawns…

The year 1800 was time when many industrialised cities started burning coal to heat homes and & power primitive engines. 198 million tons of carbon was released in the atmosphere in the year 1850 with the United Kingdom being the top polluter followed by the U.S. France, Germany & Belgium. Carbon is a translucent gas…

We have done it again! Not only does this expose human behaviour to a great extent, it also exposes the serious short comings globally in the waste management industry, from collection to processing & our short term thinking in relation to design & manufacturing.  Are we going to ban single use masks too? The answer…

Middlemen Have been a staple in many business in India and abroad. There was a time when you could not do without them, but that time is long gone, yet here in India we allow them to function as individuals/companies or NGO’s insuring that true financial value is not delivered to people or companies actually…

Boxing ???? Contrary to the belief that it is all aggression, is a thinking mans sport. I personally have taught my self to spar and hit the Heavy bag watching YouTube tutorials & falling back on some previous amateur experience from my days in Canada ????????.The art of boxing has taught me many things that…

How are we managing our medical waste? That’s the question that led me to write this post today. I have been aware and have written extensively about illegal disposal of medical waste from hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes for almost a decade, along with reporting on collusion between hospitals, the government and a handful of…

There are a total of 17 SDG goals and 169 SDG targets for each of these 17 goals that India needs to meet. Meeting each goal individually holds massive opportunities for current and new businesses, but only if these goals are looked at from a holistic perspective & there is proper understanding that they are…

Time does not wait for anyone & is a great equalizer as it provides us all with the same twenty-four hours to use in whatever way we may deem fit. The subsequent consequence of the current lock-down is that majority of the world’s working population is now working from home, thereby giving us even more…

First let’s look at the immediate requirement, packaging of essential goods. As of now the cycle is broken. Most if not all essential goods, such as food, medicines, medical equipment etc are packaged using recycled plastic (on the outside: No direct contact with the product) and mostly recycled cardboard. In terms of plastic, shrink wrap…