A worker carries a bucket full of plastic bottles at a compression plant in Srinagar
A worker carries a bucket full of plastic bottles at a compression plant in Srinagar October 14, 2009. The bottles will be crushed and then sold to a recycling plant. Srinagar city uses an average of a hundred thousand plastic bottles containing water and other soft drinks per day, a number that has been rising over the years, Manzoor Ahmad Taray, a solid waste management officer said on Wednesday. He added that the increased use of plastic bottles has had an impact on pollution in the lakes, rivers and wetlands. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)