Waste Management

Karnataka’s pollution watchdog recently charged southeast Bangalore’s elite apartments with polluting the already threatened Bellandur lake. The cloud, though, is on the regulations more than the violators.

Working together, these communities have minimized waste, turned waste into resource and in the process, help BBMP garbage contract workers earn extra money.

If the BBMP has failed to zero in on property tax defaulters, why should property owners pay for the inefficiency of the corporation, by shelling out 15 per cent more?

An initiative to segregate waste was launched at the Russell market recently. This was a joint effort by BBMP and the SWMRT, a citizen’s forum.

Mindless waste of tax payer money, helps boost GDP. Take the case of the drain cleaning works currently on from Sanjayanagar to Jayanagar.

After collecting garbage from the nearby localities using hand carts and three-wheeler vehicles, the paurakarmikas dump it on the side of the bridge.

All about waste management. What can be recycled, what can be reused? where can you donate stuff and more.

The workshop was aimed for people passionate about solid waste management to come under one roof.

A resident learns to segregate dry waste, wet waste, metal waste, e-waste, bio-waste, plastic waste.

A sea of plastic bags were sitting around, while all our children were playing in the driveway. An accidental wrong hit and and they would be scrambling amongst the garbage looking for their ball . Something had to be done. And fast.

A interactive session on waste management cum tea party for domestic help at Mayflower apartment, was part of the waste management campaign by residents.

Osborne road becomes garbage free, entire neighbourhood expected to follow suit.