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Homesegregation at source

segregation at source

BBMP collects waste from a COVID positive house in a yellow bag
Waste Management

How to dispose of COVID waste from your household

September 1, 2020 Siddhant Kalra

If you are in home quarantine or isolation, the waste from your household should be considered as biomedical waste and disposed of carefully. What are the rules on such disposal? Whom should you hand over the waste to? Here’s an explainer.

Governance

Garbage in, garbage out

November 20, 2015 Kavitha Reddy

Why does the garbage crisis keep rearing its ugly head time and again? Unless garbage tenders and the SWM policy are in sync, there could be no end to the crisis in Bengaluru.

Officials listening to volunteer talking about 2bin1bag
Environment

Waste warriors present CM with 5 key points for a clean India

June 9, 2015 News Desk

On World Environment Day, waste management experts highlighted the need for a sustainable and permanent solution to waste management in Bengaluru, to the Chief Minister.

Governance

Mayor asks Bangaloreans to wait till January for better garbage management

December 2, 2013 Bosky Khanna

Mayor B S Satyanarayana says his aim is to reduce the garbage in the city by end of his term.

Environment

Garbage-free Bengaluru? Nope, not yet!

November 29, 2013 Bosky Khanna

Here’s one reason why: BBMP doesn’t pay the contractors; and they don’t want to do a good job!

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Environment

Segregation at source gets new followers in Sadashivanagar

November 26, 2013 Adit Ganguly

Our intrepid 16-year-old re-joins his garbage collector friend on his rounds again, and finds some change!

Infrastructure

Dreaming of the day when we don’t have to segregate waste!

October 10, 2013 Malini Parmar

Idea of not having to segregate the waste looks wonderful. But do we care about the long term effects of it?

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Environment

Help develop Green Map of Bengaluru

October 2, 2013 Stine Bigum Pedersen

Do you know of any apartment / community in any locality of Bangalore where waste segregation at source is successful? If so, do take part in this survey.

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Environment

A ‘not-so-waste’ ride in garbage auto on a Saturday morning

October 1, 2013 Adit Ganguly

A 16-year-old boy accompanies a garbage collection auto during door-to-door garbage collection in Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru. Here’s what he experiences during the ride where he faces people of all kinds.

Infrastructure

How is wet waste processed at the KCDC?

June 17, 2013 Nikita Malusare

A few days ago Citizen Matters had reported that the composting firm in the state, Karnataka Compost Development Corporation would be back in action, following the steps taken by the BBMP to solve garbage crisis. Here’s a peek at the composting process in the firm.


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