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There are no dustbins in my locality...damn!
Written By shekhar_mittal - 22 March, 2009
Civic amenities Bangalore BBMP Waste Management Garbage Complaint Cleanliness
7am in the morning i just happen to go for a walk and all I end up feeling is that this city which I have fallen in love with over the past 2 years is 1 huge trash can! Depressed at that thought and thinking what we at praja can do about it...it just happens that 1 gentleman throws an empty cigarette box on the road right in front of me.
I gather some courage to go upto him and point out that it would be great if he could pick it up and throw it in a dust bin.
Immediately, he retorts back by saying that there are no absolutely no dustbins around.
Dejected, i walk away....
But i have a few questions in my mind.....
1. Do we have a functioning waste management system at all?
2. Who are the guys from whom we can ask questions?
3. What is it that we can do?
Pranav pointed out that the biggest election issue that came on the top was "Clean Bangalore". Well thats a surprise :D
COMMENTS
idontspam - 22 March, 2009 - 10:15
...I live in an area where most people know and want to throw into a bin on the streets. But, there are no dustbins in my locality...damn!
Reply from BBMP would most likely be - dustbins get stolen fewdays after we put them, so its a losing battle.
Designing street furniture for our country is a challenge because of above reason. Concrete, fixed to the ground bins could be the answer. Or may be metal bins chained or welded to the electricity poles.
Regardless, you only have to go to whatever large dustbins you have in your neighborhood and you will find that dustbins only define the "approximate zone" where the garbage needs to be dumped. The dustbin is like the bulls eye in that zone - those who 'shoot' garbage bags at it, don't get it perfectly right at times :)
Incidentally, an old Praja member from Mysore, Mr Vijendra Rao is about to start a cleanliness campign. He will be posting the details very soon. Will be interesting to track and help him.
psaram42 - 22 March, 2009 - 06:38
There are no dustbins by design. Earlier one was there right in front of my house. It was really bad and ugly. It was never good. I was extremely happy when the BBMP graduated to waste management programme No 1, which is in place now. However the collection of generated waste is outsourced to private parties. As expected this is the bottleneck. The 3 wheel type yellow vehicles are totally in adequate. Though the yellow vehicle has its loudspeaker on every morning pleading to give the generated waste whenever they are collecting goes unheard etc. and people do end up throwing the garbage any where and every where. The no 2 programme is awaited. This is to be based not burial but processing the waste scientifically. I am not an expert on this aspect. PSA
Vijay Srinivas - 18 July, 2012 - 11:24
Dust bins are required, atleast to prevent littering. Please note that Littering in European Countries and US are banned in public places with heavy fines, but in India, they are normal routine. And these countries have ample no. of dustbins at regular intervals which are cleaned frequently as well.
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