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Waste Management

Close monitoring of all forms of waste management by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (and other suburban municipalities); the practices followed and their effectiveness; the role of and impact on waste generators and conservancy workers.

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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.

Waste Management

How to manage COVID waste in apartments and gated communities

May 21, 2021 Pinky Chandran

How to dispose of garbage during the pandemic so that it does not affect waste workers, nor impact environment.

Waste Management

“KSPCB’s steep hike in CFO charges, unreasonable and unjust”

March 25, 2021 Nagesh Aras

The hike in the annual Consent for Operation fee is arbitrary and, worse, could discourage people from treating their sewage. It is especially unfair to law-abiding citizens.

Waste Management

A critique of KSPCB’s guidelines for STP design and location

March 24, 2021 Nagesh Aras and Ananth S Kodavasal

The KSPCB’s guidelines for STPs are riddled with poor and technically wrong recommendations that would end up producing expensive, substandard STPs.

Waste Management

Why KSPCB’s real-time probe for STPs is ridiculous

March 23, 2021 Nagesh Aras

The KSPCB which allows establishment of STPs without stringent checks, is now imposing an expensive and overkill solution whose technology could soon be obsolete.

Waste Management

Madiwala market’s journey of managing its waste problem

November 19, 2020 Suhasini Hathwar and Padmashree Balaram

What is waste to one person is an asset to another when given at the right time and in the required manner. A project undertaken at Madiwala Market shows how.

Waste Management

What the journey of sewage tells us about lives and livelihoods in Bengaluru

September 29, 2020 Avinash Krishnamurthy

Some of the sewage generated in Bengaluru is disposed of efficiently, but the city still uses manual scavengers to handle the rest. How can this stop? How do we find ways to deal with our waste responsibly?

Waste Management

Unused materials in your home can help B’luru kids get back to school: An eco-group shows how

September 23, 2020 G Nagaraj

The eco-group Indian Ploggers Army has been collecting unused smartphones, toys and books, and distributing these to children in need. The initiative has helped many children access online classes even as it ensures sustainable waste management.

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.

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Waste Management

Podcast: How citizen activists are trying to solve Bengaluru’s garbage problem

May 15, 2020 Grace Madigan

Over the past decade, Bengaluru’s citizen activists were able to push the government to adopt sustainable waste management practices. Though garbage remains an issue in the city, they continue their work with optimism.

Waste Management

Lockdown woes: Harsh work conditions for waste collectors

May 5, 2020 Radio Active 90.4MHz

During lockdown, workers in Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs) are dealing with hazardous waste, and are unable to segregate and transport waste on time.

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Waste Management

How to handle medical waste, kitchen waste, recyclables during COVID-19 pandemic?

April 29, 2020 Pinky Chandran

Five challenges in managing waste during pandemic times, and how we can handle them.

Waste Management

Why residents are worried about the upcoming Waste-to-Energy unit in Chikkanagamangala

April 25, 2020 Deepu Chandran

Residents of Chikkanagamangala, near Electronic City, say the project proponent lacks sufficient experience to run such a plant, and that the plant could lead to dangerous levels of pollution in the area.

Waste Management

Pollution watchdog’s penalty spree: Apartments get stay from court

March 1, 2020 News Desk

KSPCB has sent notices to hundreds of apartments in the city, alleging they are discharging untreated sewage. Apartments have gone to court against what they call an arbitrary action.

Waste Management

Reasons why garbage marshals are ineffective in Bengaluru

February 5, 2020 Manoj Sharma

Defiance from public, political intervention, non-cooperation of police is making their job difficult.

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