Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Waste Segregation Drive - Bangalore

Bangalore has always been a little ahead of other cities when it comes to environment or civic sense - We have people setting up eco friendly residential complexes, lake adoption and cleanliness drives, flea markets like "Second to None" or 220 -which encourage to re-use, reduce and recycle, - just so many earth friendly projects that residents/citizens take up.

There is a drive to reduce and ban plastic bags in Karnataka. Example, if you go grocery shopping Bring Your Own Bag - BYOB or pay for a bag. Fantastic!

The more recent, commendable drive is that of WASTE SEGREGATION at Source. What it means is, reduce the garbage going to landfills, by segregating the waste at home, recycling what we can, re-using what we can(like compost) and so on.. This is such a wonderful method and would work if everyone put their minds to it.

A lot of literature from BBMP Waste reduction site, and from various "earth warriors" and one of my favourite people whom I started to follow for waste segregation,  Vani Murthy. (I subscribe to her updates on facebook) 
Here are some of the information on this matter :

BBMP's waste segregation picture that says it all.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/BBMP-Speak-on-Solid-Waste-Management/364261033651327










The one which most people need to pay heed to would be that of disposing Sanitary waste. 






Vani's page clearly tells us "All Sanitary waste(contaminated) has to be handed over daily along with your wet kitchen waste ,wrapped in a paper bag and crossed with a RED mark.(sanitary napkins ,disposable diapers ,bandages,used condoms, ear buds or any material contaminated with blood."Vani's page clearly tells us "All Sanitary waste(contaminated) has to be handed over daily along with your wet kitchen waste ,wrapped in a paper bag and crossed with a RED mark.(sanitary napkins ,disposable diapers ,bandages,used condoms, ear buds or any material contaminated with blood."




















For more information, follow The BBMP page on Facebook or Vani Murthy's page(she makes it sound easy peasy!) https://www.facebook.com/pages/BBMP-Speak-on-Solid-Waste-Management/364261033651327 and  https://www.facebook.com/vani.murthy

Be green and a conscious citizen. After all, we can cut down the garbage at our landfills, with such simple steps. Meantime, the fine for NOT following the BBMp waste segregation that starts on OCT 1st starts at INR 100 

1 comment:

Sohaib said...

We have a women organization which want to serve our city, to clean the garbage.
Kindly help us.
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