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Written By psaram42 - 14 July, 2012

Civic amenities Bangalore BBMP Garbage Citizen Reports SWM

Venkataramanan a resident of HAL iii stage a retired Architect is a composting enthusiast. He had organized Garbage collection in HAL III Stage and started composting the wet garbage at the HAL III stage park now named as “Sir M Visweshwaraiyya Park.” [1]

He faced the wrath of garbage collection contractors. “Why should I get my head broken” he thought and quit his pet project.

When the Karnataka Pollution Control Board on Friday asked BBMP to shut down the dumping yard at Mavallipura in north Bangalore, the civic body was clueless where to dump the city’s garbage. TOI looks at how some citizens are managing household waste better. Maybe there’s a lesson for you too.

Poonam Birkasturi started in 2006 with the thought — ‘We should not dump garbage, we should manage it’. She runs Daily Dump, an organization which segregates, recycles and composts waste.

We’ve had awareness programme on solid waste management,” said NS Ramakanth, member, Solid Waste Management Round Table.  [2]

The main point being missed is that garbage segregation is best done at source.

  1. Wet
  2. Plastic
  3. Electronics
  4. Etc

There should be collection of each type of garbage on different days of the week by BBMP.

The ideal place for disposal for wet garbage is the respective area park by composting. The Other category wastes need to be stored separately and transported to respective recycling plants / factories preferably within city limits.

A seminar on this very subject at Infosys Mysore is being planed. Mr. NS Ramakanth of Solid waste Management round Table and a retired Indian army officer is involved and will be attending the same. He is in touch with BBMP on this subject.

It will be nice if the elected representative in BBMP Join hands with such projects.

COMMENTS

Thermocoal disposal

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 18 July, 2012 - 01:59

I have "created" 2 ways for that. As I did not want to dispose such a good material, I have done following:

a) Give it to kids for making models or any form of creativity

b) I have ew bean bags at home. So I cut thermocoal into tiny pieces and fill bean bags !

The third way is there, re-use as packing material, but we dont need that always, hence we need to store them, not possible to store always!

Hope this helps.

I am practising this for last

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 17 July, 2012 - 09:00

I am practising this for last 4-5 months. Now we dont have anything to dump on daily basis to BBMP truck. I will post pics soon.. 

This is how I "manage" so called "waste".

a) Green & Veg waste:

-  When its fresh, if we find cows, we feed them !

- If its old, dump to compost bag (Picture will be uploaded)

b) If we have cococunt shell 

- Remove fibrous part and make cocopeat, good for gardening

- Use coconut shell as shade cover to terrace (I have collected more than 300 half shells)

c) If we have good paper, sell it to old paper vendor (I dont take money, as he is helping me)

d) All Nandini milk sachets are washed and dried. Many times used as "seeding" trays in gardening. Remaining are given to old paper vendor for recycling

e) If glass items are in good shape, used for planting some ornamental plants. But if they are broken, dumped in BBMP truck. But glass items are rare, such as fused bulbs and tube lights.

f) Any plastic item which is wet and comes as food packed (for example - a sambar packet along with idli parcel) is washed and given to old paper vendor for recycling

g) Sweeping waste(dust) is mixed with water and that water is used for plants. The human hair is seperated and dumped into BBMP truck

h) All packaging materials are given to old paper vendor for recycling(except toothpaste tube. May be he will take that too one day)

i) Any metal waste is dumped into BBMP

j) Dry leaves are collected and used as layer in compost bin

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing your Practice

Sanjeev - 17 July, 2012 - 19:25

We need  to practice in our daily life  in our homes so that we do not  dump too much to BBMP trucks. 

Certain extent, I do practice but we miss it few times.

My biggest worry is on Thermocoal packing materials.  How do we dispose it :  It can not be recycled and their are no places in cities to dump this waste except mix with regualr waste  and BBMP will be struggling to segregate later.

Can we get the details on where we can dump used plastic,  few places BBMP or BDA  may have provided the facility,  can any one update for me.

Co ordination is important to consolidate.

psaram42 - 18 July, 2012 - 08:14

 

Every now and then articles about garbage miss management in Bangalore keep appearing in the news papers.

 An analysis of water samples from 10 sources in and around Mavallipura, the city’s garbage dump yard, reveals pollution levels are alarmingly high. Be it harmful iron, chloride or overall hardness of water, high levels of pH are equally worrisome, the analysis report pointed out. The sample testing was done by department of mines and geology, Bangalore, and the analysis sheet threw up some very disturbing figures. [1]

Some companies seem to be working in the area of solid waste management too.

 Started by Magsaysay Award-winner Harish Hande, Selco primarily works with solar energy applications. It has started exploring the possibility of effective solid waste management in various parts of the state. Beginning with the districts, it plans to implement this solution in urban areas too. [2]

Individual efforts by a few enthusiasts will not take the city of Bangalore far enough. There is a need to change the present system of collecting and disposing the garbage.

The Segregation Step is best done at the household level ie at source.

  1. Wet = waste food / veg - non veg shavings / bones / etc
  2. Used Plastic Bags / items
  3. descrded Electronic goods 
  4. Thermocole
  5. Etc

Praja need to convince the concerned authorities, to collect a garbage type on a designated day of a week ! 

I use simply gunny bag for composting.

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 30 July, 2012 - 05:55

I am waiting for my first batch of compost, which takes 90 days. It wil be heartening to get dual advantage one being disposal of green waste in-house, while other is getting around 25Kgs of nutricious manure for my chota-garden.

 

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