Bangalore residents start segregating waste at source
As garbage disposal remains a crucial issue, some apartments dwellers in Bangalore have taken up segregating waste at its source in their apartment complexes.
Residents are following different models for the purpose. In the first model, small quantity of waste generated in households is easily segregated into wet waste (kitchen waste) and dry waste (plastic, papers, electronic items etc).
kitchen wastes include vegetables and fruit peels, rotting vegetables and fruits, tea bags, cooked food residue, crushed egg shells, flowers, etc are left to decompose in a terracotta pot. Dry waste is segregated and dumped into a blue tank kept between three adjacent houses which is later sent for recycling.
Daily Dump, an organisation working for waste management, supplies material and gives residents tips on segregating and composting. Residents at Ferns Paradise near Marathalli Outer Ring Road, Royal Palm Apartment in C V Ramannagar, Sobha Aster Apartments on Bannerghatta Road and Golden Star Apartment in Mahadevapura are using this waste management practice.
On the other hand, residents of Diamond District Apartments on Old Airport Road segregate waste at source and generate income out of all the waste. They sell plastic to a waste management company which turns thousands of tonnes of waste plastic and uses them with asphalt to lay roads. Newspapers are also sold to ITC ltd.
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