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An event to feature waste management innovations and solutions

November 30, 2018 Admin

Bengaluru division of Social Venture Partnerships is organising a focused one-day event to leverage the learnings of some civic innovators, RWA’s, associations, federations, large campuses and other stakeholders in the field of waste management. Experts

Bringing bins back to Bengaluru is bad idea

October 9, 2018 Ashwin Mahesh

Around the city, it’s easy to see that a number of localities are struggling to manage their waste. Heaps of trash lie around on the sides of roads, and are cleared only occasionally. The BBMP

Catch them young: Teaching kids about handling garbage

August 9, 2017 Preethi Ravi

Teaching school kids to handle waste is a great move that will help make the future generation more responsible and cities more sustainable.

How a Bellandur family organised a low-waste celebration

May 16, 2017 Anandhi Balaji

Sobha Quartz in Bellandur, Bengaluru is a residential apartment complex with 146 families. Some families living here compost their kitchen waste in their own balcony-based mini composting plants. They also embrace zero-waste events, sustainable menstruation

Two years over. Whither Swachh Bellanduru?

May 13, 2017 Anantha Parkala

On 2nd October 2014, Prime Minister Modi launched Swachh Bharat Mission in India as a national movement. Bengaluru that was buzzing with waste management activities joined the bandwagon. But three years down the line, the

Fight garbage burning in your neighborhood!

March 2, 2017 Pierre Chahine

ST Layout Bed, 9am on a Tuesday. In a vacant plot of land, street sweepers gather the fallen leaves and garbage on the streets into two piles. They set them on fire and go on

“I want children to study”

October 4, 2016 News Desk

Written by Sowbhagya and translated from Kannada to English by Devaki Samuel It’s been twenty years since I started working as community organizer. I started as a teacher for children of 3-6 years of age.

Bengaluru, for me, a lesson in garbology

August 7, 2016 Kate Clark

I’ve been thinking a lot about garbage. Every day I find myself pondering about Bengaluru’s garbage plight. If you don’t live here, here’s a quick summary: there is a lot of garbage on the streets,

Village becomes “swachh” with Rs 1.5 lakhs, cycle trolleys, bins and bags

September 3, 2015 News Desk

Bevinmara Colony – Before and After. Pic: Team FORCE-GW Bevinmara Colony is a small village in Whitefield surrounded by high-rise apartments and high-end villa communities. The village has about 300 households, 6 shops, 3 temples

Welcome sight in the Bannerghata Zoo, 18th Jan 2015

January 27, 2015 Deepa Mohan

When trash seems to be strewn everywhere in our public spaces, it was heartening to see this sight at the Bannerghatta Zoo. Long may such initiatives last! Zoo, 18th January, 2015.

Does education mean a more heightened awareness about one’s role in society?

November 25, 2014 Sruthi Krishnan

Author: Tanmayee Narendra What does it mean to be “educated”? Does education necessarily mean a more heightened awareness about one’s role in society? These are some questions that I was forced to ask myself after

Infrastructure

Here’s how Dry Waste Collection Centres started functioning in Bengaluru

November 5, 2014 Sruthi Krishnan

Author: Sieta Van Horck Bengaluru is full of such trash dumps, though the scenario might change for better in future. Pic:Sandro Miccoli Scenarios such as the picture above are, unfortunately, not uncommon for a person

A treasure of waste

How to compost using earth worms at home in Bangalore

September 24, 2014 Shree D N

You are already composting your waste in aerobic method. As the logical next step meant to use the home-made compost, you have set up an organic vegetable garden. By now you are addicted to the

Environment

Welcome to Malleshwaram that you haven’t seen!

April 23, 2014 Shree D N

Broken commodes decorated along the compound wall that separates Railway land from BBMP land and footpath… coconut fronds thrown casually everywhere… the parked vehicles meant for carrying the dead, a garbage pickup point which never

A functional STP required for Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake

April 6, 2014 Arathi Manay Yajaman

A well-functioning sewage treatment plant (STP) achieves two things – (1) it handles solid and liquid waste, which otherwise would pollute the earth, and enables its recycling (2) it is a source of usable water