As garbage landfills run out of space, a pioneering solution from Bangalore
11 years, 3 months ago

As garbage landfills run out of space, a pioneering solution from Bangalore

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Daily Dump’s founder calls it the “world’s first waste shop”, stocking a range of products aimed at encouraging people to be proactive about household waste management: food composters and leaf composters; accessories and additives; books and educational materials. Don’t be fooled by the fact that Poonam Bir Kasturi, erstwhile industrial designer and Daily Dump’s founder, calls it the “world’s first waste shop”. Suresh Kumar, software professional and long-time customer of Daily Dump’s composting products, says, “Earlier, for 130 houses in our apartment complex, we used to have four drums to collect waste. They say it is messy and inconvenient without giving it a try.” Kasturi started Daily Dump in 2006 and still faces these challenges: to get people to actually look at the daily waste generated in their kitchens, to change the “What is the government doing?” attitude, and to convey how easy the composting process really is, to name just a few.

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BBMP received over 10,000 suggestions on solid waste management in Bengaluru
1 year, 7 months ago

BBMP received over 10,000 suggestions on solid waste management in Bengaluru

The Hindu  

Bengaluru The Environment Science Department of Bangalore University will be analysing the suggestions received under Brand Bengaluru on solid waste management to prepare a comprehensive report. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike received over 70,000 suggestions on various issues through the Brand Bengaluru website launched by Deputy Chief Minister D.K. On Thursday, in a seminar held on waste management at BU, …

Compost waste and BBMP will buy it from you
8 years, 1 month ago

Compost waste and BBMP will buy it from you

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: In an attempt to encourage and incentivize segregation of waste at source and composting at individual level, the BBMP has assured to buy the compost from the citizens. During the drive BBMP came across certain apartments and households that had been successful in composting the waste and in order to reward them it has offered to buy the compost …

Ramakanth: Thrash the trash like this 78-yr-old
8 years, 2 months ago

Ramakanth: Thrash the trash like this 78-yr-old

Deccan Chronicle  

Waste is treasured the world over, with segregated garbage being used in recycled products, compost that makes natural manure, to produce biogas and even generate electricity. At 78, Mr N.S Ramakanth is hard at work to persuade people to segregate their garbage in their homes and offices and hopes to return to Bengaluru its title of 'Garden City' that has …

Bengaluru: Garbage on fire, they play with people's lives!
8 years, 5 months ago

Bengaluru: Garbage on fire, they play with people's lives!

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: For the residents of Susheela Road in Sudhama Nagar ward, it is not just the garbage pile up they have to worry about. The residents of Susheela Road, Dodda Mavalli, falling under Sudhama Nagar, BBMP ward, are grappling with an unusual garbage problem. Unsegregated garbage is illegally dumped next to a transformer at night and it is often set …

Garbage: Where BBMP fails, activists take over
8 years, 8 months ago

Garbage: Where BBMP fails, activists take over

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: Question: What else can fed-up, frustrated citizens do when BBMP leaves mounds of garbage uncleared for years? N. S. Ramakanth, a member of the solid waste management expert committee constituted by the Supreme Court, told DC that the area near the Economically Weaker Section quarters near Ejipura has turned into a total eyesore due to the dumping of garbage …

Bengaluru Burning: The City’s Garbage Crisis is Raising a Stink
8 years, 11 months ago

Bengaluru Burning: The City’s Garbage Crisis is Raising a Stink

The Quint  

During the colonial era, divide and rule was the British policy and in 2015 Karnataka High court found that the solution to Bengaluru’s humongous garbage mess lies in the same. Households were instructed to segregate waste into dry, wet and hazardous and municipal corporation workers ie the BBMP was instructed not to collect mixed waste at any cost. Bengaluru Municipal …

My garbage is now my concern: Why Bengaluru is changing its attitude towards waste segregation
9 years, 1 month ago

My garbage is now my concern: Why Bengaluru is changing its attitude towards waste segregation

Firstpost  

The residents of Bengaluru have begun taking responsibility for their own garbage and reclaiming their city. And, life would have trudged along in its normal pace, if only BBMP could have continued to send the city’s garbage to landfill sites, keeping the powerful contractors and truckers’ lobby happy too. Citizen’s initiatives of several citizens’ forums, eco retailers, garbage service providers …

BBMP officials lack commitment to solve garbage crisis: Mayor
10 years, 9 months ago

BBMP officials lack commitment to solve garbage crisis: Mayor

The Hindu  

Sathyanarayana has said officials of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike lack commitment to solve the garbage crisis. We request the residents there to cooperate with BBMP until then,” he said, adding that if waste management projects are taken up at the ward level, pressure on landfills would reduce drastically. Mr. Sathyanarayana also called upon B.PAC to join hands with the BBMP …

Garbage piles up across city
10 years, 9 months ago

Garbage piles up across city

The Hindu  

Even as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike officials claim that the garbage is being cleared across the city, in some places solid waste is piling up. Sathyanarayana said, in a release, that BBMP will take over garbage processing units at Mandur and contract of two private companies, which had taken responsibility to process waste, has been cancelled. He accused BBMP …

Condemned to live with the city's stench
11 years, 7 months ago

Condemned to live with the city's stench

The Hindu  

The two-lane road is free of potholes. Narendra Babu, a farmer, said that former BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah had directed the officials to build a compound wall around the landfill to prevent the leachate from flowing into their fields. Rakesh Gowda, member of Mandur gram panchayat, said that Mr. Siddaiah had, on the last day as Commissioner, written to the communities …

12 wards to go zero garbage from today
11 years, 8 months ago

12 wards to go zero garbage from today

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s ambitious Zero Garbage project, which was to have begun in 30 wards from Monday, will be taken up only in 12 wards. Push for participation Towards educating the citizens to segregate waste at source, the BBMP will distribute pamphlets to all the homes in the select wards. In February, the BBMP announced that the project …

BBMP set to launch zero garbage model from July 1
11 years, 9 months ago

BBMP set to launch zero garbage model from July 1

The Hindu  

Ever since the garbage problem erupted in the city last August, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has been making noises about segregation of waste at source. The BBMP is now set to launch the zero garbage programme on a pilot basis in 30 wards across the city from July 1, BBMP commissioner M. Lakshminarayana, said at a talk organised by …

Waste: BBMP turns the heat on government offices
12 years, 1 month ago

Waste: BBMP turns the heat on government offices

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has urged the government to direct all its departments to segregate and prudently manage the waste generated in their offices. BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah said that government offices are one of the major bulk generators of waste. Mohandas Pai, chairperson of Manipal Global Education, said that social entrepreneurs working in waste management must be encouraged, and …

‘Finding places for disposing of garbage greatest challenge’
12 years, 2 months ago

‘Finding places for disposing of garbage greatest challenge’

The Hindu  

What after January 31? BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah conceded that the “greatest challenge” before the civic body was finding suitable places to dispose of garbage after the deadline imposed by the communities around the Mandur and Mavallipura landfills. He was speaking at a conference on “Solutions to impending public health crisis through good governance in solid waste management”, organised by the …

Welcome to garbagopolis
12 years, 4 months ago

Welcome to garbagopolis

The Hindu  

Bangalore’s international status as India’s first city-of-the-future — the site of a burgeoning IT industry, and a centre of cutting-edge technology and science — is, literally, sinking beneath a sea of garbage. The crisis that hit the city a few weeks ago — when garbage contractors had nowhere to dump the lorry-loads they used to offload into a landfill on …

BBMP chief promises a ‘different Bangalore’ in a few months
12 years, 4 months ago

BBMP chief promises a ‘different Bangalore’ in a few months

The Hindu  

Rajneesh Goel, Commissioner of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, which is drawing flak for the garbage crisis in the city, on Saturday assured a Bench of the Lok Adalat that he would “show a different Bangalore” in a few months. However, the Lok Adalat, which has been monitoring municipal solid waste programmes in the State, did not deliberate on the …

Garbage sent to Terra Firma
12 years, 5 months ago

Garbage sent to Terra Firma

The Hindu  

Grappling with excess garbage accumulated over the long weekend of festivals and holidays, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on Monday started sending it to the landfill in Terra Firma in Doddabalapur. One of the three major landfills in the city that has remained shut for over two months, reopening of this landfill may help alleviate the garbage crisis a bit, …

‘Garbage backlog will be cleared by this evening’
12 years, 5 months ago

‘Garbage backlog will be cleared by this evening’

The Hindu  

Days after several thousand tonnes of garbage lay uncollected across the city, cleaning efforts by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike began to gain momentum. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has asked the BBMP Commissioner and the Principal Secretary of Urban Development Department to submit proposals of the new projects before the next Cabinet meeting on November 6. About reopening of …

Garbage collection begins, BBMP gears up for Bakrid
12 years, 5 months ago

Garbage collection begins, BBMP gears up for Bakrid

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike began the onerous task of clearing the weeklong backlog of garbage on Wednesday. With the Mandur landfill temporarily opening up for dumping of waste, the BBMP has started transporting waste from the city to the dumping yard, which was blocked by the local people for nearly a week. However, a BBMP official said Ulsoor lake …

How on earth did we reach this point?
12 years, 5 months ago

How on earth did we reach this point?

The Hindu  

The city’s garbage crisis got a temporary reprieve as the communities living around Mandur, near Hoskote, agreed on Monday evening to call off their blockade and permit the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to dump waste there for another three months. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy, Mahadevapura MLA Arvind Limbavali and BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel held talks with the community members on …

Garbage mountains on Bangalore roads set to become bigger
12 years, 5 months ago

Garbage mountains on Bangalore roads set to become bigger

The Hindu  

You may be flinging the garbage away from your home now, but chances are that it will be back at your doorstep bigger than ever. For the time being, BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel says impasse at Mandur landfill has been cleared and 220 truckloads of garbage will be permitted at the landfill daily. Sneaky dumping The current situation in the …

Garbage not going anywhere: Goel
12 years, 5 months ago

Garbage not going anywhere: Goel

The Hindu  

The garbage from the city is going nowhere. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Rajneesh Goel admitted that with Mandur landfill still off limits, the waste disposal had taken a hit. The Commissioner, along with Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy, met Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and city in-charge Minister R. Ashok to discuss the garbage crisis. “We discussed the various options available …

Garbage standoff continues as BBMP scrambles for a solution
12 years, 5 months ago

Garbage standoff continues as BBMP scrambles for a solution

The Hindu  

Even as communities around the Mandur landfill continued to keep vigil preventing vehicles dumping waste there, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Rajneesh Goel and senior officials went into a huddle for the most part of Thursday trying to find a solution to the impasse. With problems persisting at the landfill for the past three to four days, BBMP officials conceded …

It took a community to raise a stink
12 years, 5 months ago

It took a community to raise a stink

The Hindu  

That segregation of waste at source is important and a solution to the city’s garbage problems is a no-brainer. The BBMP’s failure to take tough decisions and initiate action against private garbage contractors is the main reason for the problems the city is facing today, aver Opposition leaders. Citizens’ cooperation BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel told the council that the only …

Segregation and recycling can secure the Capital’s wasteland
12 years, 6 months ago

Segregation and recycling can secure the Capital’s wasteland

Hindustan Times  

It took less than a month for the “garden city” of Bangalore to become a “garbage city”. Till last week, nearly 5,000 tonnes of waste generated daily by this IT hub was piling up on the streets because the surrounding villages blockaded Bangalore’s garbage trucks that were turning their backyards into landfills. They didn’t want their land and water contaminated …

Garbage crisis will end in three months, says Bangalore Mayor
12 years, 6 months ago

Garbage crisis will end in three months, says Bangalore Mayor

The Hindu  

The city’s garbage crisis may end in another three months, Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has claimed. This, even as Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Rajneesh Goel admitted that 1,400 tonnes of garbage lay uncollected on Garden City’s roads as on Wednesday. Tracking plastic Mr. Goel said during discussions with various traders, hoteliers and citizens’ groups, the BBMP officials learnt that …

More plans to end garbage woes
12 years, 6 months ago

More plans to end garbage woes

The Hindu  

The garbage issue does not show any sign of abating in the city as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is still finding it hard to tackle the situation. The BBMP is contemplating on an action plan to develop areas surrounding the dump yards, besides appointing Municipal Magistrates. Criticising Srinivas Gayathri Resource Recovery Ltd. for failing to fulfil the tender conditions …

What a Waste
12 years, 6 months ago

What a Waste

Live Mint  

Lakshmi, a contract worker with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, pushes her cart through the huge pile of waste lying outside Bangalore’s iconic Russell Market, where a group of corporation workers are trying their best to contain the mound of trash. On 11 July, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board had ordered that garbage couldn’t be sent to the Mavallipura …

BBMP looks for ways to deal with city’s trash
12 years, 7 months ago

BBMP looks for ways to deal with city’s trash

The Hindu  

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will soon frame an action plan for effective disposal of solid waste from the city, besides providing facilities and help to the communities near the three dumps. Up in arms The city’s garbage problem has only been compounding since the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board ordered the closure of the Mavallipura landfill. Land sought Earlier, …

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