Bengaluru: The third populous city in India, Bengaluru is yet to find a permanent solution to garbage menace. The city generates about 3000 tonnes of waste everyday. With the seasons of festivals lined up together the number is sure to increase. The concept of waste processing units and the aim to do away with landfills by the civic authorities have literally failed. Every street in the city is found with piles of garbage dumped everywhere. The unclear policies of the waste management process can be one of the reasons. Citizens have been effectively trying to make the city clean and hygienic.
Now it’s actually all easy to keep the city clean, with these five alternative measures:
Start an online platform
The problem of waste can be handled on a small scale basis effectively. An IT platform model like “I Got Garbage” can help waste pickers act as waste management solutions to the city. Ragpickers are the leading recycling agents contributing to solve this problem. On the websites, anyone can request for a service to deal with the garbage. Many of the households can donate waste through these platforms that are available. Infact, these ragpickers can act as the garbage consultants thus helping to reduce the burden of the waste generated in the city. These unorganised sectors of ragpickers can make a livelihood through this process. They can also be paid with a monthly reasonable price to get the garbage picked from every door step. Helping to recycle the waste is the right way. This idea can act as an online consultancy and as well as an entrepreneurship initiative to solve the problem of waste management and reckless dumpings.
No more contractors
The waste in the city is collected by the secondary contractors. At times, the vehicles turn up once in a while and may not at all in many of the places. They don’t reflect to make any positive changes in policies made by the government. The current process of dry and wet waste segregation is a big failure since contractors think only about the collection of the waste. The segregated waste gets mixed up during the process of collection. A city like Bangalore has many pourakarmikas to do door-to-door collection. The payments can be made on the regular basis for these workers to pick the garbage.
Compulsorily composters for every home
A community of people can set up composter units in every street possible. These wastes can be converted into energy. Every household should have a composter that can convert the waste into energy. There are many biogas units set up in India but most of these aren’t working. Government can adopt the idea of providing subsidies and a composter to every household. The composters at home can make a great difference which can be used for commercial purposes.
Implement the ‘Dumping Saaku’ law
Few months ago the Siddaramaiah government declared to create a garbage free city by this law. However, the government failed with its strategies to solve the garbage menace. The city won’t become clean with these kind of uncertain solutions adopted. We need something logical and useful to get rid of the problem. The Dumping Saaku Bill, if enacted, will bar the transportation of waste to the outskirts of the city without the permission of the village panchayats. So now the people have to accept that trash as their responsibility and manage the waste within the city instead of dumping it in the villages.
Enable units to turn the waste into energy
With the space and the allotment units, the organic waste can be segregated and converted into biogas. The energy produced by these units can be used to cook. The energy generated can be used in many other ways possible like lighting a street lamp.
