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HomeWaste Management

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.

Environment

Toxic landfill at Dobbaspet worries residents

May 25, 2009 Anirban Sen

A landfill of hazardous electronic and biomedical waste starts functioning in Bangalore’s outskirts. Is the government’s solution for the city’s garbage disposal issues safe?

Infrastructure

How this JP Nagar flat community cuts down its waste

March 11, 2009 Arathi Manay Yajaman

Residents of the Brigade Millennium complex launched a ‘Blue Drum Campaign’ recently to manage waste better. Guards, housekeepers, maids, children and parents all got involved and it has worked.

Health

Hospital waste dumped off Kanakapura Road

November 3, 2008 Meera Iyer

The waste has been traced to Apollo Hospitals. Both Apollo and its waste contractor denied the dumping.

Commute

Plastic-blended roads now the norm

July 1, 2008 Supriya Khandekar

If there is a silver lining to Bangalore’s infrastructural woes, it may be this. Plastic-blended roads have become the standard, and are here to stay.

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Infrastructure

Still lying on the footpath

March 4, 2008 Srijaya N Char

One lady with a wheelbarrow. Another with a helper in a three wheeler to collect. Even other people to clean the drain. Yet
at 10 AM, the streets…

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Infrastructure

Citizens act to improve garbage collection and disposal

July 19, 2007 Rajeev Yeshwanth

Several citizens groups are working on improving Solid Waste Management.

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