Mafia controls this waste-sorting centre in Bengaluru
8 years, 6 months ago

Mafia controls this waste-sorting centre in Bengaluru

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: A waste collection and segregation centre right in the city has become a haunt for cows, stray dogs and a resting place for pourakarmikas. Located below the flyover connecting Domlur to Indiranagar 100 feet road on the old Airport road, this two-acre space was meant for garbage segregation. A sum of Rs 50 lakh have also been spent on a bio gas unit, meant to produce lighting for the centre and park nearby, but this is not being utilized,” said Mohan, another resident. Residents don’t send segregated garbage: N. Manjunath Prasad, Commissioner, BBMP Wet and dry garbage gets mixed at this collection and segregation centre, causing stench.

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Bengaluru MLAs 'from all parties' blackmailing us over garbage crisis: DK Shivakumar
1 week, 6 days ago

Bengaluru MLAs 'from all parties' blackmailing us over garbage crisis: DK Shivakumar

India Today  

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday alleged that the city MLAs across political parties are "blackmailing" the government over Bengaluru's garbage crisis. Shivakumar revealed that the government had planned to divide the city's garbage disposal work into four packages and transport waste 50 km away, but the initiative has been stalled. Noting that he wanted to take …

Sanitation woes take centre stage as Gururgam preps for civic polls
1 month ago

Sanitation woes take centre stage as Gururgam preps for civic polls

Hindustan Times  

As Gurugram gears up for the municipal elections, slated for March 2, sanitation and illegal waste dumping have emerged as key voter concerns, with residents across the district expressing frustration over deteriorating hygiene and the failure of civic authorities to address the issue. Despite repeated complaints and grievances, irregular waste collection and unchecked garbage dumping persist in several areas, leading …

Improper waste management, a major cause for pollution in Madurai
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Improper waste management, a major cause for pollution in Madurai

The Hindu  

The rapidly growing population alongside rapid industrialisation has been generating tonnes of waste every single day in major cities across the country. As per the United Nations Environmental Programme, “With approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste generated each year, and volumes expected to increase to 2.2 billion tonnes by end of 2025, urgent action is needed to head off …

Garbage stink lingers in Mohali despite HC snub
2 months, 1 week ago

Garbage stink lingers in Mohali despite HC snub

Hindustan Times  

Despite a high court order six months ago, garbage continues to pile up in the prominent GMADA areas of Mohali, creating an eyesore and health hazards for residents. GMADA earlier did not bother to construct RMC points or public toilets while developing new areas, while the garbage was being dumped in the city area under the corporation,” an MC official …

Dumping garbage on Bengaluru's Nallurhalli Road a bane for residents
4 months ago

Dumping garbage on Bengaluru's Nallurhalli Road a bane for residents

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: A long stretch of Nallurhalli Road pavement in Whitefield has turned into a garbage dump, forcing pedestrians, especially senior citizens and schoolchildren, to walk on the road due to the uncleared waste along the footpath. He added that the uncollected garbage not only affects daily commuters but also raises health concerns, with the potential for disease spread due to …

Watch | Trailing Bengaluru’s waste, from city to landfill
7 months, 1 week ago

Watch | Trailing Bengaluru’s waste, from city to landfill

The Hindu  

Do you know about the journey of Bengaluru’s waste? From homes early in the morning to Mittanaganahalli on the far side of the city, mixed waste from Bengaluru treads a long path from the city to the landfill. Two workers are assigned for every auto tipper, which has a dedicated space to put the wet waste and two more sacks …

The journey of Bengaluru’s waste
7 months, 1 week ago

The journey of Bengaluru’s waste

The Hindu  

In the bustling tech hub of Bengaluru, residents strive to maintain pristine homes, quite unaware that their tidy spaces come at a hidden cost. Even before that, workers who collect it from homes and black spots gather at a designated place in every ward around 6.30 a.m., along with auto tippers, to mark their attendance. All mixed up In ward …

Will city recover from open dumping? | Solid Waste Management pitfalls: Garbage woes persist despite Chennai Corporation’s cleaning drives
7 months, 1 week ago

Will city recover from open dumping? | Solid Waste Management pitfalls: Garbage woes persist despite Chennai Corporation’s cleaning drives

The Hindu  

Despite efforts by the Greater Chennai Corporation to address garbage collection issues through mass cleaning drives, residents in several parts of the city continue to face challenges. Sandhya Vedullapalli, resident of M Block in Anna Nagar and Vice President of Federation of Anna Nagar Residents Associations, said, “Generally, the ward’s supervisor or the Conservancy Inspector respond to our complaints. Complaints …

‘Brand Bengaluru’ garbage lying on Vidhana Soudha premises
8 months, 1 week ago

‘Brand Bengaluru’ garbage lying on Vidhana Soudha premises

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Is the state government serious about transforming Bengaluru into a world-class city with its ambitious ‘Brand Bengaluru’ concept? For, garbage lying on the iconic Vidhana Soudha premises is a testimony to this. Lawmakers and visitors, who went to Vidhana Soudha where the monsoon session is under way, were greeted by heaps of garbage dumped near Gate 2 on Friday. …

Residents raise a stink over indiscriminate dumping of garbage on the banks of Cauvery at Kambarasampettai
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Residents raise a stink over indiscriminate dumping of garbage on the banks of Cauvery at Kambarasampettai

The Hindu  

The continued dumping and burning of garbage on Muslim Street in Kambarasampettai has irked the residents. If we ask them not to dump garbage on the road side, they throw it near the banks of the Cauvery and burn it,” said M. Farjana, a resident. Residents say whenever they raise the issue of burning trash on the national highway, garbage …

Bengaluru: Solid Waste Management department has fined 13 lakh people for violations since 2019
10 months ago

Bengaluru: Solid Waste Management department has fined 13 lakh people for violations since 2019

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The BBMP’s Solid Waste Management department has penalised 12.96 lakh people since 2019, collecting a whopping Rs 41.70 crore in penalties from them, for violations ranging from usage of banned single-use plastic, spitting, urinating in public places, to open defecation. According to R Prathiba, Joint Commissioner, Solid Waste Management Department, BBMP, the Palike engaged marshals, health officials and engineers …

Bengaluru’s clean image needs polishing
1 year, 2 months ago

Bengaluru’s clean image needs polishing

New Indian Express  

The Swachh list can be termed an index of urban governance, and also a comment on the political leadership. The only two Karnataka cities in the top 100 are Mysuru at 27th position, which is disappointing, considering it had bagged top slot in 2016, while Hubballi-Dharwad at rank 87 comes as a big pleasant surprise. Quite obviously, the Bruhat Bengaluru …

Piled-up garbage raises a stink in Vijayawada as outsourced workers continue their stir
1 year, 2 months ago

Piled-up garbage raises a stink in Vijayawada as outsourced workers continue their stir

The Hindu  

The citizens have become the unintended victims of the logjam between the Andhra Pradesh government and protesting outsourced municipal workers as the complaints related to stink emanating from piled-up garbage, dog and mosquito menace pouring in. With the State government not agreeing to the main demands of the workers, the latter on January 6 announced that their Statewide indefinite strike …

Lack of scientifically designed garbage transfer stations puts workers and residents of Bengaluru in peril
1 year, 9 months ago

Lack of scientifically designed garbage transfer stations puts workers and residents of Bengaluru in peril

The Hindu  

Sharat, a waste picker from North Bengaluru, sets off at around 6.30 a.m. in his auto tipper for door-to-door waste collection every morning. “Transfer stations should have proper infrastructure like a shed and a ramp,” says Pushkara S.V. “The absence of ramps which would aid the vehicles to easily shift the waste and the lack of manpower to clean the …

Accidental shift to decentralised waste management helps Thiruvananthapuram
1 year, 11 months ago

Accidental shift to decentralised waste management helps Thiruvananthapuram

The Hindu  

At hindsight, the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation authorities might now be thanking the people of Vilappilsala who organised a strong protest movement to close down the centralised waste treatment plant in their village. The protest, and the consequent closure of the plant, made the civic body rethink its waste management practices, which led to the slow but still incomplete shift towards decentralised …

Educating public on source segregation is the way forward in waste management
2 years, 1 month ago

Educating public on source segregation is the way forward in waste management

The Hindu  

With the government embarking on a new plan to dispose solid waste, a section of environmentally-conscious residents wants the Local Administration Department to initiate a mass awareness campaign to educate the people on source segregation. After engaging a firm to dispose of around 7.42 lakh cubic metre of waste accumulated over the years through bio-mining at the Kurumbapet garbage dump, …

Waste disposal continues to raise a stink in Panchkula
2 years, 4 months ago

Waste disposal continues to raise a stink in Panchkula

Hindustan Times  

The National Green Tribunal slapping a ₹9-crore fine on the Panchkula municipal corporation has catapulted pervasive waste mismanagement in the city into the limelight. However, Citizens Welfare Association president SK Nayar says, “The new garbage collectors do not come at a fixed time, nor do they ring the bell to announce their arrival and move from the lanes quickly, leaving …

Bengaluru’s trash is no man’s treasure
2 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru’s trash is no man’s treasure

The Hindu  

“Seven years ago, 20 trucks full of garbage started to come to our village. We only got to know after four years when our borewell water turned dark, and I had to undergo a surgery after an infection in my throat,” said Jayram Xavier, a 65-year-old resident of Bingipura village, who is staying near the abandoned landfill site in southern …

Residents irked over sorting of garbage in their patch
2 years, 8 months ago

Residents irked over sorting of garbage in their patch

The Hindu  

The three garbage bins — eight months ago, there was just one bin — on First Street, Krishna Nagar, Peravallur, emits a foul smell, forcing passersby to hold their noses. Residents further note the garbage collection truck comes three to four times a day and conservancy workers segregate the waste before putting it into the three bins. Prakash Manohar, a …

Trash the waste before Bengaluru burns
6 years ago

Trash the waste before Bengaluru burns

Deccan Chronicle  

Villagers in Kanahalli village are still choked by dark clouds of particle-filled smoke and a foul stench, after a fire, meant to burn waste in the Bellahalli quarry pit, grew out of control and burned for four days straight. And as this cannot be taken to waste treatment plants, where only segregated garbage is accepted, a whopping 350 loads of …

Bengaluru: Garbage segregation lesson for visitors at Aero India
6 years, 1 month ago

Bengaluru: Garbage segregation lesson for visitors at Aero India

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Garbage segregation lessons were also part of the Aero India show which concluded on Sunday with volunteers from the BBMP sitting near dustbins — both wet and dry — and asking people to segregate their waste and dump it into the respective bins. While separate bins were kept at all places in the aero show, it was only followed …

Awareness and fines: Bengaluru mayor's nostrum for waste woes
6 years, 5 months ago

Awareness and fines: Bengaluru mayor's nostrum for waste woes

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Sowmya is a resident of Cottonpet. The day when segregation at source came into effect in Feb 2017, she purchased two bins - green for wet waste and red for dry. With segregation at source dropping drastically newly-elected Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun has plans to revive the concept. She aims to improve segregation with the help of autos, which will …

Public garbage bins on way out in Mumbai, 1,300 will be gone soon
6 years, 7 months ago

Public garbage bins on way out in Mumbai, 1,300 will be gone soon

Hindustan Times  

If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation manages to implement what it is planning, you may be able to walk on several streets without having to contend with the stench emanating from the big public garbage bins. The BMC is planning to get rid of the big metal public garbage bins and encourage door-to-door collection of garbage. Chandrashekhar Prabhu, a town planning …

Residents, NGO work to make Mumbai’s Bandra Reclamation a zero-garbage zone
6 years, 9 months ago

Residents, NGO work to make Mumbai’s Bandra Reclamation a zero-garbage zone

Hindustan Times  

Bandra Reclamation is about to become a zero-garbage locality soon. With assistance from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the NGO Stree Mukti Sanghatana, the residents of Bandra Reclamation have installed compost pits and tumblers of, with capacities between 30kg and 60kg, in housing societies and establishments like the fire brigade station, MTNL, MSRDC and Ali Yavar Jung Institute for the …

Bengaluru: Babasaheb Ambedkar statue keeps litterbugs away!
7 years, 1 month ago

Bengaluru: Babasaheb Ambedkar statue keeps litterbugs away!

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Father of Indian Constitution Dr B.R. M. R. David, founder president of Dr Ambedkar Bangalore Youth Social and Cultural Welfare Trust told Deccan Chronicle, “From many years the stretch of Rajendranagar 80 Feet Road between Passport Office and National Games Village is being used to dump garbage. “We mobilised funds from our trust and have started work for the …

Segregation hurdles leave Bengaluru down in dumps
7 years, 2 months ago

Segregation hurdles leave Bengaluru down in dumps

Deccan Chronicle  

Noxious smoke from piles of burning garbage is a common sight in Bengaluru, which still struggles to dipose of its waste. 450 crore on seven integrated scientific waste processing plants to process the garbage and convert it into compost, only 800 metric tonnes of it is being processed, much below the plants’ capacity to handle 2,500 metric tonnes, regrets Ms …

Waste management could generate six lakh jobs in India; can Bengaluru show the way?
7 years, 3 months ago

Waste management could generate six lakh jobs in India; can Bengaluru show the way?

Firstpost  

Managing urban India’s 1,50,000 tonnes of municipal waste could generate 6,00,000 to 7,50,000 jobs while creating a cleaner environment and ensuring dignity and safety for millions. At the bottom of the “stack” are the “destinations” for the different types of waste: biogas or compost for wet waste and various options for dry and hazardous waste. A company like Carbon Masters …

Regulate Garbage Collection Process: Reader’s #PollutionKaSolution
7 years, 4 months ago

Regulate Garbage Collection Process: Reader’s #PollutionKaSolution

The Quint  

One of the biggest contributors to air pollution is stubble/garbage burning. Here’s what I propose we can do about it: 1) Set up a monitoring system: Ward mukadam & nagarsevaks should monitor garbage burning. 2) Install cameras in strategic places to nab the culprit and send hefty fine to them with 1-week notice or block his mobile number. Most of …

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?
7 years, 6 months ago

The Ghazipur landfill collapses, another catches fire, and no one wants a dumpsite in the backyard. Where must our solid waste go?

The Hindu  

A defiant mound — lush with grass as on a golf course — rises amidst 150-feet-high mountains of rotting garbage that constitute Delhi’s most infamous landfill, in Ghazipur. In an earlier interview, Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link, an organisation that works on waste management problems, had said that unless basic steps such as segregating waste at source were undertaken, it …

Noida Sector 20 residents demand permanent solution to garbage problem
7 years, 7 months ago

Noida Sector 20 residents demand permanent solution to garbage problem

Hindustan Times  

For the residents of sector 20 in Noida, the problem of garbage management has been persistent for the past few months despite several complaints made to the Noida authority. Another bone of contention for the residents of sector 20 is a half demolished garbage collection centre located near gate 8 of the sector. “The garbage collection centre has been broken …

Waste segregation in Delhi: Lack of awareness, no support from garbage collectors main hurdles
7 years, 9 months ago

Waste segregation in Delhi: Lack of awareness, no support from garbage collectors main hurdles

Hindustan Times  

In a big push to the Centre’s Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, the North and East Delhi implemented garbage ‘segregation at source’ in 10 neighbourhoods on Monday. The success of the concept remains a challenge for the civic agencies as a majority of people either don’t know about segregation or were reluctant to try it. But the success of the …

Poor sanitation troubles Vijayawada residents
8 years ago

Poor sanitation troubles Vijayawada residents

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Sanitation and garbage collection has become a problem for the residents on the city outskirts. Residents of these areas are facing problems with the poor sanitation and garbage management implemented by the panchayats. Stinking smell is creating problems,” said Javvadi Padmavati, a homemaker from Vuppara-bavi Street in Gollapudi. Government should consider our problems and maintain sanitation as is done …

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 …

Garbage problem at Madhuranagar
8 years, 2 months ago

Garbage problem at Madhuranagar

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Madhuranagar has become a mini dump yard in recent times. The sanitation workers of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation are dumping the garbage collected from the colony in the vacant land in first lane of Pasuputhota near the water tank. The locals have even protested when Member of Legislative Council Buddha Venkanna visited the colony as part of the ongoing …

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: Tamil school becomes a garbage yard!
8 years, 3 months ago

Bengaluru: Tamil school becomes a garbage yard!

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: BBMP Tamil-Kannada Higher Primary Nursery School on Thimmaiah Road, has become a mini garbage dumping-yard. The entrance of the school is used for flinging garbage, as a storage place for old scrap items, to dump sand to be used for construction and a lot of other things. “Heaps of garbage with stray cattle feeding on it, waste and debris …

Who's going to clean up your mess, BBMP?
8 years, 3 months ago

Who's going to clean up your mess, BBMP?

Deccan Chronicle  

Why won’t Bengaluru’s garbage problems go away? The BBMP, which is constantly lamenting people’s reluctance to segregate garbage at source, is not doing enough to popularize the idea, believes urban evangelist,V Ravichandar, suggesting that it has many options to build awareness, from roping in school children to carry the message home to slapping fines on those who don’t fall in …

Why are Chennaiites stuck at segregation?
8 years, 5 months ago

Why are Chennaiites stuck at segregation?

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Policies to manage solid waste and business models, which are focusing on clean environment, face a common obstacle: non-reception from public. It has always been a tough struggle for activists to change people’s attitude towards waste and get them to segregate it, a basic step towards waste management. It took more than six months to streamline the habit of …

Garbage misery: IT city left wet & dry'
8 years, 5 months ago

Garbage misery: IT city left wet & dry'

Deccan Chronicle  

The garbage problem has turned from bad to worse, with even those who were segregating waste earlier now handing over mixed garbage bags to pourakarmikas. secretary of Benson Town Residents Welfare Association, "For the past three –and- a -half years we have been spreading the message of segregating garbage at source. Fines are the only way to make people fall …

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 …

Bengaluru: Stench parks itself on Park road
8 years, 7 months ago

Bengaluru: Stench parks itself on Park road

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: For residents of Park road, near the bustling Queens Road, it has been a long drawn battle against mounds of garbage dumped illegally in their vicinity. To make matters worse, at night, nearby hotels and big apartments are stealthily thrown off their garbage here,” said Sufiyan, a resident of the area. The residents claim that they have complained to …

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 …

Will the BBMP wake up to the stink?
9 years, 1 month ago

Will the BBMP wake up to the stink?

Deccan Chronicle  

It is unfortunate that the city, which spends a whopping Rs 500 crore on solid waste management, fell several places to 38 in the Swachh Bharat rankings. In many areas people have no choice but to dump their garbage on the roads in the absence of proper door-to-door collection especially of the dry waste, which the BBMP is not doing …

Gone to waste: How India is drowning in garbage
9 years, 1 month ago

Gone to waste: How India is drowning in garbage

Hindustan Times  

Travelling from central Delhi towards Ghazipur in the city’s east, the first warning that you get of the approaching landfill is the sight of circling birds of prey. We need to learn from countries like Sri Lanka, which is segregating its waste, or Bhutan where everybody is conscious to not pollute their land,” says Swati Singh Sambyal, programme officer, sustainable …

Colonised by garbage
9 years, 7 months ago

Colonised by garbage

The Hindu  

A few days ago, Reena Talwar’s pet dog Bebo suddenly lost her appetite. In fact, it has been the smelliest year since I came to live here about six or seven years ago,” says Ms. Talwar, keeping a hawk-eye on Bebo so that she doesn’t start sampling the leftovers from heaps of plates that have been discarded from a neighbourhood …

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 …

Citizen-Official Cooperation need of the hour
10 years, 9 months ago

Citizen-Official Cooperation need of the hour

The Hindu  

Around one-and-half years ago when the city was in the grip of a garbage crisis, segregation of waste at source was hailed as a “fail-proof” solution towards solving the problem. Solid waste management experts had, in fact, even joined hands with the BBMP and trained the pourakarmikas, garbage supervisors and sensitised the officials. The reduction of the quantum of waste …

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