Nalini Shekar, Author at Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

No one wants the textile waste, or pay for their transport to reprocessing units

April 6, 2022 Pinky Chandran and Nalini Shekar

The textile waste industry has to deal with an endless list of different fabrics which cannot be recycled and have to be incinerated.

Mounting textile waste: Easy to buy, easy to trash, but not easy to recycle

April 4, 2022 Pinky Chandran and Nalini Shekar

Bangalore is facing a massive influx of textile waste estimated at more than one million tons every year, not all of which can be reused or recycled

The what, why and how of a plastic waste brand audit

March 8, 2022 Pinky Chandran, Dr Umashankar S and Nalini Shekar

Have you ever thought about conducting a brand audit of the plastic waste you generate and dispose of? This article explains how you can go about it.

Environment

Brand Audit 2021: Here are Karnataka’s top producers of plastic waste

March 7, 2022 Pinky Chandran, Dr Umashankar S and Nalini Shekar

In Bengaluru, food packaging dominated the plastic waste list, followed by other packaging material and. household and personal care products.

Dry Waste Collection Centre in Bellandur

How Bengaluru’s crumbling Dry Waste Collection Centres can be overhauled

May 20, 2019 Nalini Shekar

Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs) perform the critical function of collecting, sorting and disposing of dry waste in the city. But the majority of these centres are dilapidated, with few facilities and difficult work conditions. A recent study suggests ways to change this.

Civic

Waste-pickers – Salvaging the city’s garbage

January 29, 2014 Nalini Shekar and Pinky Chandran

The 2010 UN Habitat publication states that waste-pickers perform 50 to 100% of all ongoing waste collection in most cities in developing countries – at no cost to the city budget. How does it work for the waste-pickers in Bangalore?