Bangalore Municipal Corporation

Segregation at source is already made mandatory with fines for noncompliance. Unfortunately, bbmp have not bothered to enforce this absolutely important and essential practice for a cleaner city. 70 to 80 percent of garbage is wet waste which should go out to garbage dump every day. Householders should collect dry waste/recyclable waste separately in large garbage bags and should place them outside their house on a designated day before a certain time, say 8 am. This dry waste Should be transported to dry waste collection centers whic are already established in most wards. This practice we are trying to implement in our street 25th main, jp nagar. I phase. Urgently, bbmp should change over to large semi articulated three wheeler/trucks from the present three wheeler auto ricksha like vehicles. This way productivity in solid waste transport will double with same manpower and fuel expenditure. That is, more cubic meters of garbage transported per trip of secondary vehicle movement upto the point where the larger primary truck takes over. Hazardous waste should be disposed off in cool ur coded sacks once a month also. Efforts by bbmp in this sphere which is lacking at present should enhance considerably. We citizens need to cooperate fully.

Area : Shreyas Colony, J P Nagar 7th Phase, Bangalore 560078.
Garbage situation is very pathetic here. Once in two days, garbage pick up vehicle comes. But there is no fixed time. They come, any time of the day. Keeping garbage in plastic bags outside the home or on the gate is a problem, as dogs/squirrels/rats pilfer the contents and spill it all over the area. It becomes an additional job for residents to clean up the area, and to put back the contents again into the bags. Some people who don't rely on this garbage disposal system, regularly dump garbage near vacant plots, little away from their homes. So every where in this area, one can see garbage piles. Mounts and mounts of garbage are piled up at some spots like Puttenahalli Bus Stop etc. However, pourakarmikas are clearing it every now and then but then garbage piles up again. It seems the government has no proper plans to manage the garbage situation. They try to dump garbage in villages around Bangalore, and over a period of time villagers protest and stops garbage trucks from dumping there. This has been the modus operandi of the government for long but it may not work any longer. The bottomline: - the area is vast and BBMP is ill equipped to service the area efficiently and systematically. This has been proved again and again.

The system doesnt work today. There is garbage collection but there is no segregation. Apartments in our area are getting into segregation and even processing the wet waste into compost themselves. But there is no segregation nor it is made mandatory by BBMP for the individual houses. With irregular garbage pickup, the mixed garbage is thrown around in multiple spots.

For 6 months, we had cleaned up our area every Sunday but without further BBMP support, cannot sustain it.

Apart from the corporations. the people have to take more interest in garbage management. A push to this can be given by government by implementing the plastic ban effectively at the local level and insisting on segregation at source. The next step would be to encourage local composting of wet waste so that large quantities of garbage need not be transported over ever increasing distances ( saves a lot of cost )

Terrible