1. Beautiful PSS

2. Not so Beautiful PSS

3. Purva Sunshine generates 200-
300kgs of trash everyday!
Where does all this
trash go??

4. Into the
truck
Straight
to
Landfill

5. Landfills - Mountains of Waste
SHEESH!!!!!!!!!

6. Mavallipura Landfill
Bangalore’s killing fields
-This Unscientific landfill receives 700
tons of garbage every single day from
Bangalore.
-It used to be a quiet village in the
outskirts.
-Now a horrible place to die in. Deaths due
to dengue, malaria, cancer much higher
than national average.

7. Landfill charge
• Many countries have run out of landfill
space. So landfill access is charged
heavily. Recycling is not a choice for
them.
Greece recycles 10% of its waste
UK – 17%
Austria – 60%
US – 35%
India - ?
PurvaSunshine - ??

8. Sea of Garbage
All drains lead to the
sea.

9. Great Pacific garbage Patch
Your plastic ends up here –
Largest landfill on earth is in
the ocean!

10. 1700 sq miles of plastic flotsam
in the pacific ocean

11. Sea Animals get entangled
in plastic.

12. Countless sea
creatures die
ingesting
plastic trash

13. Plastic photo-degrades into small
fragments and disrupts ecosystems

14. Do you say
NO!!!
to plastic bags
at the Grocery
store?
Carry your own
bag for
groceries.

15. What about paper?
Paper is bio-
degradable
But it takes a lot of
resources to produce.
When buried in a
landfill it gives out
methane – a powerful
green house gas

16. Metals are
valueable.
Recycle metal cans and foils.

17. DONT throw glass in garbage.
Reuse and Recycle

18. Have you
recycled
today?
Think
before you
trash it.

19. Bangalore is recycling. Are you?

20. Collect your Segregation bags!

21. Recycle bins kept in the basement
lift entrance of each block

22. Recycle your electronic waste -
A and D block ground floor lift
entrance

23. Purva Sunshine –
In Kgs Dry waste Collection 2011
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept
Please participate in our recycling program.
Recycling is good!

24. Is zero waste possible?
Yes if you recycle dry waste and
compost wet waste.
Zero waste is possible.

25. Don’t waste
your kitchen
waste.
Turn it into
nutrient rich
compost

26. Compost happens
It is nature’s way
Compost smells good!
Garbage smells bad!

27. Compost can be made
in a plastic bucket.
Don’t believe it?
Visit D305
Little green
thumbs
Abhi’s mini
composter

28. Priya’s Kitchen
garden. She grows
her own veggies!

30. Did you know?......
Waste
segregation is
mandatory in
Bangalore.
Follow the
rules.
Segregate your
waste. Leave a
cleaner world
for ….

31. THEM!!