Garbage disposal in Bangalore

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I have been ignorant about the garbage disposal system in Bangalore And I had been dumping my household waste without segregating them. I came across few resources that really enlightened me about garbage segregation in Bangalore . I am sharing them here with few pictures for all of you who wish for a cleaner earth.

Here the links to the resources that helped me to know about garbage segregation in Bangalore.

Bangalore Citizen Matters- Solid Waste Management Guidelines - This is an wonderful article with FAQs. I found it to be very helpful.

Indian Household Wastes - Categories and their management - This BBMP issued PDF file has detailed information on dry wet waste segregation.

Here is a simple illustrated chart by Swachha which can be helpful to understand dry waste segregation better.

Image Souce: India Water portal

Dry Wet waste segregation:

Lots of plastics ( like milk covers, milk cartons, oil covers, restaurant take out covers, plastic wrap, etc..,) have been disposed along with wet waste because they are wet. Here are some pictures which could help you to turn these wet plastic waste to dry waste, so that it can be effectively recycled.

a) I am using a knife to cut all the sides of the cover. You can use scissors too.

b) Scrub the cover using soap to remove the greasiness.

c) Wash it water and let it dry.

You can follow the above steps for cleaning other wet plastics too. Below are the pictures of few such recycled plastics and other materials.

1. Dosa/Idli batter cover

2. Restaurant take away covers

3. Yogurt/Curd cups

4. Snacks packet

5. Plastic wrap

You can leave these to dry on your window like this or whatever way possible.

You can store these dry wastes for a week or so until the bin is full and then you can hand over these separately as dry waste to the garbage collectors.

Sanitary waste segregation:

Blood, mucus or saliva stained cotton, swabs, tissues, sanitary napkins, baby diapers, adult diapers etc..,(anything that might contain germs) can be placed in a paper bag marked with a big red "X". This can be handed over to the garbage collectors separately.

Here's a picture of sanitary waste disposal

I will try to add few more explanatory pictures. Please feel free to ask me about any kind of waste segregation. I will be happy to learn from you too.