Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic,…

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Dark grey smoke curls above the Torsa riverbank in Jaigaon, a crowded border town of West Bengal, India, separating India and Bhutan. Plastic waste, medical refuse, construction debris and household waste lie scattered across the river bed and cows and dogs forage through the garbage. In January, an Instagram reel of this area drew a long-ignored environmental crisis into public notice. In it, a young content creator who goes by the name Rock Lama on Instagram, stood before the smouldering waste, appealing to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for immediate intervention to stop what he describes as the routine illegal dumping of the town’s waste along the river. The video by the 24-year-old Jaigaon resident, spread widely across social media platforms, sparking discussions about rural waste management, governance, environmental negligence, and the growing waste crisis in smaller towns and Panchayat areas where populations have increased with time and waste has increased proportionately, without infrastructure to manage it. A border town struggles under its own waste Jaigaon is a densely populated commercial town with approximately 100,000 residents and serves as a crucial gateway between India and Bhutan. Its markets bustle with cross-border trade, tourism, and transport activity. Yet, beneath...

Five people from West Bengal and Assam have been arrested in connection with smuggling of luxury used cars from Bhutan, officials said on Saturday. Kerala: Five people arrested for smuggling luxury used cars from Bhutan; DTO among the accused In a statement, Customs said that the arrested persons are Biswadeb Das from Jaigaon in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, Deepak Patwari from Paltanbazar in Kamrup district, Ayub Ali from Jojigaon in Bongaigaon district, MD Mustafa Ahmed from Poladmari in Jalpaiguri district, and Jalal Mandal from Chapar in Dhubri district. All four belong to Assam.

Five people from West Bengal and Assam have been arrested in connection with smuggling of luxury used cars from Bhutan, officials said on Saturday. Kerala: Five people arrested for smuggling luxury used cars from Bhutan; DTO among the accused In a statement, Customs said that the arrested persons are Biswadeb Das from Jaigaon in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, Deepak Patwari from Paltanbazar in Kamrup district, Ayub Ali from Jojigaon in Bongaigaon district, MD Mustafa Ahmed from Poladmari in Jalpaiguri district, and Jalal Mandal from Chapar in Dhubri district. All four belong to Assam.

A viral photo recently highlighted the stark contrast along the India-Bhutan border: the Bhutanese side of the narrow canal was clean and tidy. The Indian side, though, was filthy and rubbish-strewn. It’s not an isolated incident: an Instagram reel filmed at another key border town, Jaigaon, showed the same thing. Piles of plastic waste, medical refuse, construction debris and household waste are scattered across the river bed. Smoke billows from burning garbage as cows and dogs forage through the refuse. Is Jaigaon a preview of what lies in store for ‘100% Pure New Zealand’? One of the most foolish conceits of the mass immigration elites is that simply importing millions of Third World peasants into Western countries will magically transform them into responsible, middle-class Western suburbanites. As if simply disembarking at Auckland International will stop people behaving exactly as they have for all their lives. > A New Zealander has called out two immigrants he caught illegally dumping rubbish on the side of a rural road near Auckland. > > Local man **Hugo Maclean** took a video of himself confronting the pair, who were of Indian subcontinental appearance, and shared it on Facebook with the caption: “Why do we put up with the freaking people. Import the third world and become the third world…” > > The clip shows the two men hurriedly putting large cardboard boxes back into their black Toyota Prius as Mr Maclean approached the spot where they were parked on Brookby Road, Clevedon. According to Maclean, there are at least five piles of illegally dumped rubbish on the same stretch of road. The incident mirrors even more shocking cases of so-called fly-tipping in Britain. There, the practice has reached shocking proportions, with 1.26 million small-scale incidents recorded in 2024–25. There were nearly 100 ‘large scale incidents’. Yet, only 0.2 per cent of incidents resulted in court action and the number of fines have decreased. > “We are taking it, sorry for that,” one of the men replies in an Indian accent. > > “Don’t be sorry, don’t fucking come to our country and litter, you motherfuckers,” Mr Maclean responds. Ah, but they’re the _victims_ , don’t you see? > An Indian-origin Auckland man, Mr A (name withheld), says he has lodged complaints with police and raised concerns with Netsafe after a video of him and a friend allegedly attempting to dump cardboard in Auckland went viral, resulting in abusive phone calls and messages over the past six days. The incident took place on 4 April in Alfriston […] > > Mr A shared with the Indian Weekender, that he had been out with a friend intending to dispose of three sofa-sized cardboard pieces before a function at their home on 5 April, and had been searching for recycling facilities in Manurewa and Papakura. He said the facilities were closed due to the public holiday. > > On their return, Mr A said they attempted to leave the cardboard on a grassy and muddy area, believing it would decompose over time, before being confronted by a passing driver. > > “Within 15 seconds, a car stopped in front of ours and a man got out with a phone camera, started recording and abusing,” he shared. In other words, locals are fed up with this literal rubbish. Even in suburban Auckland. > An irritated local has told off a pair of immigrant workers she caught pouring paint down a drain on a suburban street in Auckland. > > A video filmed by the woman shows her confronting two men with foreign accents, from a painting company that appears to be owned by an Afghan man, disposing of their paint into a drain and telling them it was “totally unacceptable”. > > “Oh sorry, we didn’t know about that,” the men reply. > > “That goes straight into the sea, you realise that don’t you?” the woman replied. Just like the plastic waste in the oceans that almost entirely originates in a handful of rivers in South Asia and Africa. > The woman shared footage of the encounter to her X account where she posts as Kiwi Mum, and said she had reported the painters to council. > > “He did a runner two minutes later! He knew exactly what he was doing. Deport!” she wrote […] > > Mass immigration from third world countries has also caused friction on beaches near Auckland, with the government recently banning seafood collection from a huge swath of coastline in response to mainly Chinese immigrants stripping rock pools of marine life to cook and eat. > > The ban came after fed-up locals organised a protest against the immigrant pillagers, dubbed “bucket people”, who were arriving by the busload and “taking everything that lives”. With migrants expected to be the largest demographic group in New Zealand in less than a decade, Kiwis better get used to it. * * * 💡 ****If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.****

Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, construc...

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Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, construction and medical waste gets dumped along the banks of the Torsa River. The river originates in the Chumbi Valley in the eastern Himalayas and flows through Bhutan before entering India at Jaigaon. Locals say they worry the rampant river pollution could impact the image of Jaigaon, a key tourist and trade point between India and Bhutan. “Our towns share an international border and a lot of tourist footfall takes place every year, as the town is growing population-wise, we demand a municipality facility to manage the solid waste and also other issues of Jaigaon,” Jayant Mundra, convenor for the Joint Forum of Business Association Jaigaon and vice president of the Jaigaon Merchant Association, told Mongabay India. Mundra added that during rains, much of the waste enters the river, and ends up in homes and public places. Environmental activists said the dumped waste is often openly burned, which releases toxic pollutants into the air. Downstream, the Torsa flows through ecologically sensitive floodplains that serve as habitat for Indian rhinos, elephants,...

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Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, construc...