On
2nd October 2014,Our Honorable PM Shri Narendra Modi launched the “Swacch
Bharat” Campaign in his quest for a Cleaner India.The initiative is
a success in some aspect but has still a lot to achieve if we want to
be on the track to a Clean India by 2019.From Sanitation,over flowing
drains to Garbage dumping everything needs to be taken into measures
to the path leading to 2019.But here we will look into the issue of Garbage
dumping from the perspective of Bangalore City and in the idea of Waste
Segregation.
Bangalore,City
of Gardens,Oh...wait a second isn't it City of Garbage,now??? With pile of waste
littering all over the city,Bangalore has definitely lost its charm
over it.Its not like that the heap of garbage came overnight and suddenly spread its fang all over the city.It has always been a long term process that only
came to focus only after people from different location started
protesting over the large land used as a dumping site for all the garbage and now with non availability of dumping ground,it lives on the streets of
Bangalore like an orphan.Though there has been protest time to time it was never able to pick
momentum until now with amount of increase in garbage reaching new
high and with the attention and pressure from international media and business honchos.As per records Bangalore on a daily basis produces an average of 6500 tonnes of waste which is indeed a very high number.The
BBMP(Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike),the civic administrative
body of Bangalore at present have seven waste processing units in
the city(with 3 in total functioning) and with a capability to
process 2500 tonnes(total) of wet waste per day,but not all even the
limit of the garbage is being sent there.Did we miss something?Yes indeed a very simple
trick,Bangalore produces 4500 tonnes of waste including dry and
wet every day,but BBMP can process only wet waste.This brings us to a very interesting situation,what can be done to tackle the problem. And only here our hero of the
blog WASTE SEGREGATION comes into picture.
Waste
segregation means dividing waste into dry and wet. Dry waste includes
wood and related products, metals and glass. Wet waste, typically
refers to organic waste usually generated by eating establishments
and are heavy in weight due to dampness.It is the process of dividing
garbage and waste products in an effort to reduce, reuse and recycle
materials.Once dry and wet waste are mixed it becomes hard to separate them even for the pourakarmikas (or safai karamcharis) and
thus equally impossible to get them processed.Whereas the dry
waste remains remain intractable,wet waste can be very useful resource. Companies such as Terra Firma and Maltose are proposing to
collect wet and green waste and to turn it into manure.Even BBMP so
far commissioned two bio-methanisation plants that can turn five
tonnes of garbage into methane a day.