This Indian city is turning a mountain of trash into cash

India's cities are among the largest garbage generators in the world, producing about 62 million tonnes of waste every year

It’s 6.30 a.m. in the Indian city of Mysuru and the streets are full of the sound of whistles blowing as workers in olive green aprons and rubber gloves begin a door-to-door search. They have come to collect one of India’s biggest untapped resources: garbage.
 

The about 1 million citizens in the southern city, also known as Mysore, are in the vanguard of a campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clean up the country and recycle rubbish into compost and electricity. The task is gargantuan, but the approach in Mysuru -- combining the availability of cheap labor with traditional