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solid waste management

BBMP auto tippers
Waste Management

Solid waste management: BBMP budget prioritises the worst solution of them all, more landfills

April 8, 2022 Pinky Chandran

Instead of investing and upgrading decentralised SWM facilities, Rs 100 crore has been allocated towards design and operations of scientific landfills.

Plastic waste
Waste Management

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.

Plastic waste segregation for Brand audit
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 Bettahalasur Gram Panchayat
Waste Management

Bettahalasur village, north of Bengaluru, no longer has a garbage crisis. Here’s how

January 31, 2022 Pinky Chandran

Until recently, Bettahalasur village dumped and burned its waste. But now 94% of the waste is segregated and processed.

Solar panels mounted on the terrace
Environment

You too can build a sustainable home, just do as this former submariner did

October 27, 2021 Commander Ganapathi Subramanyam

A Navy veteran built a sustainable home in the suburbs of Bengaluru, which is self-sufficient in terms of power and water. Here’s how he went about it.

Greenery in SJR Redwoods Apartment
Environment

How a Bengaluru apartment created a ‘food forest’

September 3, 2021 Kavitha N Kishore

The forest provides the community free food, and has brought back bird and insect species that had long vanished from the area

Workers sorting in the Dry Waste Collection Centre
Economy

How has Bengaluru fared in empowering waste workers?

July 5, 2021 Pinky Chandran

A deep dive into what Bengaluru has done on the ground to translate policy into action to support waste workers.

DWCC operator Kumudha
Economy

How the pandemic locked waste workers out of livelihoods

July 1, 2021 Pinky Chandran

The economic impact on informal waste workers’ livelihood and the entire informal recycling industry due to the lockdown.

solid waste management event poster
Waste Management

Panel to explore Bengaluru’s Kasa Connections: Solid Waste Management, Workers’ Safety, and Public Health

June 25, 2021 News Desk

Panel discussion on solid waste management, addressing concerns of workers and wider implications for public health and sustainable development.

Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: Deadline for 100% waste segregation | Sankey Tank overflows | Trial run of e-bus…and more

October 25, 2020 News Desk

Catch up on news from the city over the past week, in our roundup.

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.

Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: BWSSB supply hits peak | Committee opposes separate contractors for wet and dry waste | Traffic cops take up civic works

May 4, 2019 News Desk

BBMP committee decides against separate contractors for wet and dry waste collection, BWSSB water supply at its highest ever this summer, traffic police takes up road and drain works – read more on what has happened in Bengaluru this week

Governance

“Garbage problem can’t be managed from BBMP head office alone”: Special Commissioner

March 8, 2019 Manasi Paresh Kumar

The new waste management system will fail if ward committees don’t take ownership locally, says BBMP Special Commissioner D Randeep.

Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: Trader licences revoked, SPV project pushed and 1000 transformers uprooted

July 28, 2018 News Desk

Your chance to catch up on news that matters: Here’s a quick wrap of some important headlines from your city over the week gone by.

Civic

Bellandur apartment citizens set example in reduce-reuse culture

December 16, 2016 Anandhi Balaji

Sobha Quartz resident Anandhi Balaji recounts her experience in leading the community on the way to a more responsible and environment-friendly holistic lifestyle.

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