All waste processing plants and landfills will be shifted out of Bengaluru city: D.K. Shivakumar
1 year, 3 months ago

All waste processing plants and landfills will be shifted out of Bengaluru city: D.K. Shivakumar

The Hindu  

Residents living around waste processing plants who have been demanding their closure for years now may heave a sigh of relief. Shivakumar on Tuesday announced that the State government will relocate all waste processing plants and landfills to outside Bengaluru city soon. Mr. Shivakumar directed Deputy Commissioners of Bengaluru, Bengaluru, and Ramanagara districts to find land parcels of 100 acres each in four places, in four directions from the city, to establish Integrated Solid Waste Management Parks, to where all waste management of the city will shift to and all processing plants and landfills in the city will shut down. Ironically, it was the earlier Congress government that built five waste processing plants in 2013-14, in less than six months, hailed as a paradigm shift in SWM in the city. The city’s civic body built waste processing plants in Seegehalli, Kannahalli, Doddabidarakallu, Chikkanagamangala, and Subbarayanapalya.

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The journey of Bengaluru’s waste
4 months, 3 weeks 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 …

BBMP identifies land in West, South and North of Bengaluru for waste processing parks
9 months, 2 weeks ago

BBMP identifies land in West, South and North of Bengaluru for waste processing parks

The Hindu  

Bengaluru’s civic administration has identified three large parcels of land in West, South and Northern outskirts of the city to establish integrated waste processing parks, even as the hunt for a large parcel of land is underway in the East. According to its budget presented on February 29, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike is looking for ‘large parcels of land of …

‘Unscientific’ landfills, not a solid fix for waste management
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Unscientific’ landfills, not a solid fix for waste management

The Hindu  

Are ‘unscientific’ landfills the only way to manage Bengaluru city’s massive mountains of solid waste? As more quarries are identified as landfills, the search for a sustainable long-term solid waste management plan has hit rock bottom. The State-owned Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited recently floated a tender to set up two landfill sites in the city, one near Bagalur and …

Why is Bengaluru expanding its waste-management capacity? | Explained
1 year, 2 months ago

Why is Bengaluru expanding its waste-management capacity? | Explained

The Hindu  

The Government of Karnataka is contemplating the relocation of waste processing facilities, operational in Bengaluru, to the outskirts of the city. The existing waste processing capacity in Bengaluru stands at about 2,000 TPD, including small-scale decentralised ward-level waste processing facilities, leaving roughly 3,000 TPD of waste to be disposed of in landfill quarries without processing. Given the issues posed by …

Now, Bengaluru’s waste to be dumped in Ramanagara
1 year, 2 months ago

Now, Bengaluru’s waste to be dumped in Ramanagara

The Hindu  

At a time when citizens and experts in Bengaluru have been demanding the closure of waste processing plants and landfills, the State government has decided to carry the heaps of refuse to Ramanagara, besides Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural districts. On his directions, the Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited will set up four integrated solid waste management plants on lands …

Shivakumar’s visit leads to resumption of operations at waste processing units
1 year, 6 months ago

Shivakumar’s visit leads to resumption of operations at waste processing units

The Hindu  

Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s surprise visit to waste processing plants in the city led to to at least one plant that was shut down restart work immediately. There are about seven processing plants in Bengaluru, of which at least three had halted operations due to stiff opposition from the public when the Assembly elections were …

Accidental shift to decentralised waste management helps Thiruvananthapuram
1 year, 9 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 …

No respite for Kochi from decades-old garbage conundrum
1 year, 10 months ago

No respite for Kochi from decades-old garbage conundrum

The Hindu  

The city’s garbage conundrum remains unresolved going by the repeated failures in waste management witnessed over the past two-and-a-half decades. Before the Kochi Corporation set up a solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram in 2008, two key attempts to manage the waste at landfill sites at Cheranalloor and Willingdon Island had failed miserably. The Kochi Corporation has been maintaining the …

Bengaluru’s trash is no man’s treasure
2 years, 2 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 …

No longer the city of gardens! How we can stop our cities and towns from going the Bangalore way
2 years, 9 months ago

No longer the city of gardens! How we can stop our cities and towns from going the Bangalore way

Firstpost  

Currently, only 30 per cent of India’s wastewater is recycled. State or Central government agencies that fund the ULBs for building water and sanitation infrastructure to service urban growth can introduce smart rules when approving plans for new growth areas in the form of conditions for allocating zones for locating facilities for decentralised wastewater treatment and recycling. Similarly, ULBs that …

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