bangalore waste management

Multi-layer nonrecyclable plastic continues to dominate waste streams. A brand audit shows the different brands that pollute, and seeks answers to the questions on producer’s responsibility.

Kalyana Mahaganapathi Temple management had to pay 1,000 rupees each time to get the waste cleared. This is an inspiring story of the temple becoming self-sufficient in managing waste.

A contractor emboldened by lax attitude of BBMP abused and harassed 37 women pourakarmikas. Poura Karmikas will protest against this in Bengaluru, asking to remove the contract system and justice for abused women.

The vertical garden installed by Green Peace as part of Waste to Food campaign has taught so many lessons. And there are takers for those lessons.

Why does Bengaluru’s waste management break down often? How does the ‘mafia’ operate? What is needed to help the city come out from the clutches of the garbage mafia?

The SWMRT group proposes a way for waste to be managed, in the interests of pourakarmikas, citizens, environment protection and civic efficiency.

Money for waste management in BBMP is literally going down the quarries. Yet BBMP Council is preventing the move towards a direct payment and a performance-based system. Waste management in city is paralysed!

The Chitrapur Mutt in Malleswaram practices 100 per cent waste management and does not throw away any garbage.

Five teenagers from Bengaluru took the first place in an international app development competition with their mobile app that will let local users buy and sell dry waste.

CII, an industry body, organised the government consultation programme. This attracted the dissent of the public and NGOs working in Bengaluru in the field of waste management.

Renuka Mani shares the sad story of waste management in her apartment complex, after reading our story on BBMP’s garbage expenditure over the years. The story throws light on the problems faced by communities.