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Clean, Water & Waste

A wrapper is light. A flood is not.

Carry your wrapper to a bin instead of dropping it on the street or into a drain.

One wrapper is very light. Four hundred wrappers are a monsoon plan nobody voted for.

Here's the science
  1. What happensLitter and plastic dropped in streets and open drains
  2. HowWaste blocks storm drains so water pools; discarded containers hold that water, where Aedes mosquitoes breed
  3. SoWards with poor drain clearance tend to see more waterlogging and more mosquito-borne disease
Suggestive - measured in the real worldIN-WB
Discarded household waste and water-holding containers were documented as principal larval habitats for dengue vectors in urban India.

An observational link: littering rarely occurs apart from other sanitation gaps, so this shows association, not a clean cause-and-effect number.

Source: Household wastes as larval habitats of dengue vectors (Kolkata) - Peer-reviewed study (PMC / NCBI)(checked 2026-07-18)

And when we do it

Wrappers that reach a bin keep drains clear, so the water goes where it should when the rain comes.

You couldn't have known. Now you do.

Information, never a verdict. Every fact carries its source and the date we checked it.