The outcome of the parliamentary vote prompted immediate anti-government protests in the center of Paris with demonstrators setting fire to bins and clashing with police who used tear gas to clear some areas.
Add that to other types of waste burning, traffic pollution, road and construction dust, and you have a problem that various efforts haven't been able to solve in the past.
There's no processing of waste in most Indian cities, according to the government's central pollution board, and in some cases trash is simply burned in open dump yards on the roads.