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What happens to all that trash?
Source: DNA, Date: , 2014
As part of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike’s (BBMP’s) solid-waste management programme, the collection and disposal
of 70% of trash generated by Bangaloreans is outsourced while the Palike
manages the remaining 30%. With the increase in the population, there has been a proportional
rise in the generation of solid waste as well. Bangalore generates over 4,000
tonnes of waste everyday from households and commercial establishments. About
70% of this waste is organic, while the remaining accounts for inorganic and
hazardous waste.
The primary
collection is being done using pushcarts and auto tippers. There are about
11,000 pushcarts and 650 auto tippers for door-to-door collection of waste,
while there are about 4,300 pourakarmikas of BBMP and 10,000 from contractors.
The process of secondary collection and transportation of waste involves about
600 municipal solid waste management (MSW) transportation vehicles, including
compactors, tipper trucks and mechanical sweepers.
The waste
collected from households is brought to a common point ie secondary locations
from where the waste is shifted to the treatment sites through compactors and
tipper trucks. As segregation at source and the secondary stage is not
happening, unsegregated waste reaches processing units.
With
increased unsegregated waste reaching landfills, villagers in the areas
surrounding the dumps have raised objections about bad odour emanating from the
sites and ground water getting contamination. As per the directions of the high
court, the BBMP has initiated a series of steps to remediate the existing
landfills.
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