A blog by Solid Waste Management Round Table, Bengaluru, India.
Author: Waste Chronicle by SWMRT, Bangalore.
The vision of SWMRT (Solid Waste Managment Round Table, Bangalore) has been to bring the Municipal Waste Management Rules 2000 and its recommendations to life for the city of Bangalore. Joining the various strengths and abilities of its members, SWMRT has created synergies and efficiencies. As a result today it can proudly state, that through its work thousands of households and institutions have converted to segregation at source, which means that every day tons and tons of waste are being recovered and converted into renewed material instead of being dumped at the outskirts of the city. For more details, please visit www.swmrt.com
Veteran SWM activist N S Ramakanth holding an awareness session at Hebbal on 21st August. Choultry owners, members from street vendors associations were present.
With the Directorate of Municipal Administration, Karnataka, leaving out the waste-pickers who have been the backbone of everything to do with solid waste management thus far in its draft of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Model Solid Waste Management Bylaws-2018 released on the 10/07/2018, here’s the feedback from Solid Waste Management Round Table (SWMRT) which has raised its objections to the same.
At the launch of OFYT’s website at Mydreamgarden in Bengaluru recently. OTG veteran Dr Vishwanath Narayan (third from right) shares nuggets of wisdom on growing one’s own food.
By Vani Murthy
Nearly 10 years ago, I visited a landfill, saw the destruction citizens like me left behind somewhere on the outskirts of the city that wreaked havoc on the people living around. This experience changed the course of my life forever.
As I began digging deeper and started observing every mundane act of mine from my changed perspective about everything to do with waste, I met some of the most passionate, caring and environmentally responsible people in this journey. What more, I also realised that I had a passion brewing somewhere deep inside: converting organic waste into compost. Continue reading “Growing my own food and growing as a person”→
It was either steel, glass or melamine-coated plates, spoons, etc., at the 5-day CME meet held in Bengaluru recently.
Three hundred-plus doctors out on a 5-day Continuing Medical Education (CME) meet took up the challenge to make the conference completely eco-friendly. Here’s how.
There were many questions in the beginning though. The ones that nagged the most were: Is it really possible to have an eco-friendly conference? Will it be feasible? Will we be able to ensure a meet which is smart and clean? And will it be pocket-friendly as much as it is eco-friendly? Continue reading “How to “Beat plastic pollution?” Bengaluru gynaecologists show the way!”→
Concerned citizens busy keeping a tight vigil at night in HSR Layout to prevent irresponsible people from dumping mixed waste in street corners indiscriminately at odd hours.
This used to be a common sight in HSR: BBMP workers standing in knee-deep mixed waste and loading the autos even as they segregated and picked up anything recyclable. These workers’ hands and feet would often be cut by glass shards, infected by hazardous waste. This would force them to skip work often. Mounds of mixed waste filled the landfills day after day, contaminating the soil and affecting the lives of the people living nearby. Empathy towards these people brought together volunteers with a common purpose: to reduce our waste going for landfilling. Ward 174 (HSR) and Ward 173 (Jakkasandra) having active volunteer groups showed to the rest of Bangalore that with citizen participation, we can achieve the impossible. Continue reading “HSR activists turn night-time vigilante groups to stop garbage dumping”→