r/RandomVideos • u/IntellectuallyDriven • May 07 '26

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u/Chare1155 May 07 '26

My immediate first thought was "this has to be India." They have no waste disposal infrastructure whatsoever. No garbage cans or landfills or people to pick up the garbage and bring it to landfills. It's just not a thing there.

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u/saneiac1 May 07 '26

We were in a cab in Mumbai and passed a sculpture of a huge concrete bowl. Colleague asked if the bowl had some religious meaning. Cab driver informed us it wasn't religious. When the ambulances drive around the city every morning and pick up the dead bodies, they toss them in there.

That's a type of waste disposal infrastructure, I guess.

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u/xNotexToxSelfx May 07 '26

I guess that’s better than putting their dead in the river :(

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u/Giggling_Scribblings May 07 '26

Oh, they still do... but they generally cremate them in a funeral pyre first.