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Written By psaram42 - 23 August, 2012
Bangalore BBMP Waste Management Garbage Pollution Analysis SWM
Bangalore has got the Tag of a "Garbage city" recently due to gross mismanagement of Garbage collection and disposal.
The city’s failure to manage its garbage is reducing vast stretches of its hinterland into wasteland. [1] The crisis is so acute that dozens of students of a school at Mandur [1a], near Hosure [1b] [Hosekote ?], off Old Madras Road, are leaving the institution, unable to bear the pollution threat posed by the garbage dumped in a landfill nearby.
Mandur site, [1c] which is about 30km from Bangalore, is the only active landfill. The other two — at Mavallipura and near Dodda-Ballapur — were shut down following protests from the local residents.
Over 600 tones of garbage sent to the Mandur landfill daily has created hillocks of waste on a 25-acre of government land. The garbage is not processed. Consequently, air and ground water pollution, mosquito menace and roving bands of stray dogs have made life miserable in the surroundings.
- Terra firma 1000 tons capacity closed on August 20 following protests by locals.
- Mavallipura 600 tons capacity closed on June 2012
- Cheemasandra 200 ton capacity Shut down by BBMP [Why ?]
- Mandur the only dump yard remaining now facing closure
- Sheege Halli closed down by BBMP [Why?]
- Jannappanabande closed down by BBMP [Why?]
- Doadabidarahalli closed down by BBMP [Why?]
Minister Ashok is now supposed to sort out the matter with the BBMP. It is well knon that Solid Waste needs to be managed at source by way of segregation. You cant bury the garbage with plastic bags as throun by people invariably
Unfortunately Minister Ashok nor BBMP are aware of any fundamental facts or principles. of the issue.
Earlier praja discussions are relevant here.
COMMENTS
psaram42 - 24 August, 2012 - 09:27
- Cops to clear garbage [Why not Ashoka show the way?]
- Land fill - Bury the kitchen waste with the plastic bag in which it is dumped. But the locations are wrong!!
- I have relesed Rs 5Cr/- enjoy!
- I will bring back the bodoes from North East too
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I know what to do. Why bother about people like
- Meenaxi bharat
- Sandya Narayanan
- NS Mukunda
abidpqa - 26 August, 2012 - 10:28
Waste to Energy (WTE) is the best option available now. Recycling technologies available now are not good enough for making products that can be sold and even safe. Even if the waste is very carefully segregated the quality of final recycled products will be unpredictable. This will be the case atleast with plastics. There are so many components to plastic products with many options in those components like additives, dyes etc. as everyone knows, and they will change to unpredictable products during recyling. For ecample if we take polyethylene, there will be different manufactureres who have added different components for different reasons. Recycling will come into conflict with safety issues in the end.
Therefore only option left is WTE. The condition need to be imposed is they should not pollute air instead of the earth, water etc. even if the costs cannot be covered by selling energy, and those companies ask for a fee. That is the waste should be burned in very high temperature so that all waste is degraded to simple and safe chemicals. Segragation of course will be beneficial to design a more efficient and nonpolluting WTE process. Again it will release CO2 etc., but that can only be reduced by reducing consumption.
Bheema.Upadhyaya - 26 August, 2012 - 15:36
..there is a way, not blaming system(though they have right to do so as tax payers) !
Check this out... and check out whole website..
psaram42 - 27 August, 2012 - 03:58
Bheema blaming the government is not the end in itself. I agree. Our governor recently made a Naïve statement “give me 20 people and I will get the city cleaned” which attracted some caustic remarks by the BJP spokes person.
Keeping the city clean is one of the responsibilities of BBMP. The daily dump site is a good reference provided by you, which says that the process of keeping our city clean starts with each house hold. However BBMP has to make it happen. It is our responsibility to talk to them and convince them to collect each segregated garbage on seperate days . Praja and other like minded NGO’s should set up a dialogue with Minister Ashok along with BBMP officials.
Organic waste to manure / plastic recycling / WTE are worth considering A joint action by Praja and all other NGOs concerned is necessary to make BBMP to comply.
Bheema.Upadhyaya - 5 October, 2012 - 15:01
Having used for facebook for more than 2 yrs, many are addicted to "like" button. So suggestion is to have a "like" button even for comments. Many comments are so good and valuable :) Even "agree/disagree" buttons would kick nice "campaign" !
(PS : Admin : You can move this to relavant thread, once you read this)
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